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Meet Michelle.
Talk therapist, Five Element acupuncturist, radio host and founder of Wallingford Wellbeing. Thirty years of exploring what it means to live a healthy, balanced life.
“It’s the small, purposeful steps, taken with conscious connection, that lead to meaningful, positive and lasting change.”
For over 30 years Michelle has been exploring what it means to live a healthy, balanced life. She led large-scale luxury hotels and resorts, headed workplace wellness strategy and curated wellbeing for organisations such as Barclays, and has kept a clinical practice running alongside it all.
Her approach brings together neuroscience, advanced psychotherapeutic techniques and traditional Chinese medicine. Named Most Dedicated Talk Therapist and Wellness Workshop Provider 2024 for Oxfordshire by Luxlife, and nominated for the Women Changing the World Award 2024, she runs a busy weekly clinic in Wallingford and works online with clients around the world.
Beyond the clinic she founded Wallingford Wellbeing, its festival and its magazine, and trains touch-led therapists through TPOT.
Training and registration
Qualified in both doors.
- Acupuncture
- BSc (Hons), Lic Ac, College of Integrated Chinese Medicine. Member, British Acupuncture Council and Association of Acupuncture Clinicians.
- Talk therapy
- Association for Professional Hypnosis and Psychotherapy. National Register of Psychotherapists and Counsellors.
- Lifestyle medicine
- British Society of Lifestyle Medicine. Educating Member of the Complementary Medical Association.
- Recognition
- Luxlife 2024, Most Dedicated Talk Therapist and Wellness Workshop Provider, Oxfordshire. Nominated, Women Changing the World Award 2024.
Listen and watch
Try something before you book anything.
A two-minute tapping routine for when it all feels like too much, and a weekly radio hour on where ancient medicine and new research agree.
Ancient Wisdom: Modern Science
Michelle’s weekly show on UK Health Radio. Sleep, gut health, acupuncture, the nervous system, and the guests who study them.
Listen to past episodesBeyond the clinic
The wider Wallingford wellbeing family.
The practice sits inside something bigger: Wallingford Wellbeing, with its magazine, its directory of local practitioners and its festival, plus the training Michelle gives other therapists.
- 01Find a local practitionerThe Wallingford Wellbeing directory: yoga, breathwork, massage, homeopathy and more, all local.
- 02Wallingford Wellbeing MagazineQuarterly and free to read, with print editions around the festival.
- 03What’s on in WallingfordClasses, river swims, singing circles and the festival weekend.
- 04TPOT professional trainingTraining for touch-led therapists, taught by Michelle.
- 05Gift a sessionA voucher for a treatment or talk therapy session, sent by email in minutes.
In their words
“I was crippled with anxiety when first diagnosed with cancer. Michelle not only helped me to manage the anxiety and panic. She has been instrumental in the relationship I now have with my oncology team, my family, and my self.”
“I reached out to Michelle when my business was failing, and I felt paralysed in how to get myself out of the hole I had got myself in. Now not only can I breathe again, my business has also taken a new lease of life and I feel great.”
“I love working with Michelle. Her energy, passion and ability to make people feel comfortable and at ease talking about even the most challenging subjects is inspiring.”
What happens next
Three steps, and the first one costs nothing.
- STEP 01
A free discovery call
A short call to hear what is going on and whether I am the right person. No pressure, no script. Book a slot online or ring the clinic.
- STEP 02
Your first session
Talk therapy begins with a 45-minute consultation for £40, redeemable against sessions booked within three months. Acupuncture starts with a health questionnaire and a full first treatment.
- STEP 03
A plan that fits your week
Weekly clinics at The Lodge, Wallingford. Online sessions worldwide. Walking sessions along the Thames. Visits to your place of work by arrangement.