Michelle Richardson

Michelle Richardson is a Psychotherapy Intern who supports teens, adults, women, and caregivers navigating anxiety, depression, chronic illness, disability, neurodiversity, grief, parenting challenges, and emotionally complex life transitions. She brings over 25 years of experience in mental health support, inclusive education, crisis response, family advocacy, and leadership in accessibility and DEI.

Michelle’s professional expertise is enhanced by meaningful personal experiences navigating parenting, health challenges, and life changes within her own family. This perspective deepens her understanding of the emotional realities and resilience required by those balancing care for others while trying to care for themselves.

With a background in professional health and fitness and experience competing at a national level in athletics, Michelle brings a unique appreciation for the mind–body connection, performance pressure, and the intersection of physical and emotional wellbeing.

Her therapeutic approach is trauma-informed, collaborative, and strengths-based, integrating Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), psychoeducation, emotion-focused work, and experiential interventions. Michelle works alongside clients to explore their emotional experiences, strengthen coping skills, and reconnect with meaning, identity, and self-compassion.

She welcomes clients coping with anxiety, depression, stress, burnout, grief and loss, identity shifts, life transitions, caregiver fatigue, relationship dynamics, and the emotional impacts of complex health journeys.

Michelle’s warm and authentic approach helps clients feel deeply understood and supported, while cultivating confidence, self-empowerment, and hope for the future.