Feeling stuck, burnt out, or like you’re constantly falling behind? You’re not alone — and you don’t have to figure it out on your own.
I’m a UK-based counsellor and coach, and I specialise in helping adults who feel overwhelmed, emotionally exhausted, or trapped in patterns of overthinking and procrastination. Many of my clients live with ADHD, anxiety, low self-esteem, or are recovering from burnout. Others have hit a point in life where something needs to change — but taking that first step feels impossible.
Before retraining in mental health, I spent 30 years in the IT industry. I know what it’s like to juggle high-pressure roles while quietly feeling disconnected and empty inside. That lived experience helps me support people who feel they have to “hold it all together” on the outside while struggling with stress and self-doubt on the inside.
What Working With Me Feels Like
Clients often tell me they feel genuinely heard and calmer after sessions. My approach is warm, grounded, and practical. I bring together tools from CBT, solution-focused therapy, coaching psychology, and mind–body practices to help you move from overwhelm to clarity.
Together, we’ll:
✨ Untangle the mental noise and overwhelm
✨ Build emotional resilience and confidence
✨ Create strategies to manage ADHD, anxiety, or burnout
✨ Reconnect you with what matters most in your life
You don’t need to have it all worked out before starting therapy. You just need a safe space to explore, reflect, and take steps toward the changes you want.
Qualifications & Approach
I’m a registered member of the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS) with over five years of counselling experience and more than 15 years in personal development coaching. My training covers formal counselling qualifications and extensive CPD in neurodiversity, stress management, and emotional regulation, with hundreds of hours working 1:1 with clients on ADHD, anxiety, and burnout.
My sessions are always shaped around you, at your pace, and focused on what will help you feel more grounded, confident, and clear.
Ready to take that first step?
If you’re feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or burnt out, therapy can help you find your way forward. Let’s work together to build the calm, clarity, and momentum you deserve.
Additional areas of focus: Relationship issues, Family conflicts, Trauma and abuse, Grief, Intimacy-related issues, Sleeping disorders, Parenting issues, Anger management, Career difficulties, Coaching, Compassion fatigue, Abandonment, Aging and geriatric issues, Attachment issues, Autism and Asperger Syndrome, Avoidant personality, BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture, Codependency, Commitment issues, Communication problems, Dependent personality, Dissociation, Divorce and separation, Domestic violence, Emptiness, Fatherhood issues, Guilt and shame, Hospice and end-of-life counseling, Impulsivity, Infidelity, Isolation / loneliness, Jealousy, Life purpose, Men's issues, Midlife crisis, Mood disorders, Panic disorder and panic attacks, Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling), Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), Self-harm, Self-love, Sex addiction, Sexual dysfunction, Sexuality, Smoking / vaping cessation, Social anxiety and phobia, Workplace issues
Clinical approaches: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), Gottman Method, Hypnotherapy, Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Psychodynamic Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy
NCPS Therapist - Accredited Member (MNCPS Accred) #NCS20-00979
These quotes represent just a few of the many positive reviews that we have received for Michael Dodden. We don't pay anyone to provide their review and they are all made voluntarily. Some people's experience receiving therapy with BetterHelp might be different.
Michael is amazing, he goes out of his way and own time to help you and do everything he can to give you the full support you need. Only had a few sessions and I’m already feeling improvement. I would highly recommend.
Written on Jun 18, 2025 after therapy with Michael for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, sleeping disorders, self esteem, career difficulties, coping with life changes, and adhd