Dr Michelle Tolfrey

Michelle is a Clinical Psychologist (HCPC Registered and BPS Chartered) with over twenty-one years of experience working in the NHS, Social Care and private practice. She has been fully qualified for fourteen years, during which time she has specialised in working with adults who have experienced trauma and loss.

Michelle has undertaken further specialist training in multiple evidence-based therapies, including: Schema Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR), Compassion Focussed Therapy, Mentalisation Based Treatment and Single Session Therapy. She integrates these approaches to suit your specific needs.

Michelle works with people who have experienced Reproductive Trauma, including infertility, pregnancy and baby loss and birth trauma, understanding how the legacy of these can impact on the parenting experience. She helps people to explore what might be resurfacing as a result, such as childhood experiences and old coping styes that no longer serve them. Michelle also supports people who are navigating difficult transitions in their reproductive journey, including pregnancy after loss and finding peace with having an only child by circumstance rather than by choice.

Michelle works online and can offer both short-term (including single sessions) and ongoing therapy.