Dr Michelle Wood is a counsellor with extensive experience in working with individuals, couples, families, children, and supervising counsellors. Michelle works collaboratively with each person, couple, family, or child to resolve issues, restore wellbeing and strengthen relationships.
Michelle’s working theory is wide, eclectic and integrative including narrative therapy, family therapy, positive psychology, Gottman's relationship research, attachment theory, developmental theory, feminist theory, queer theory, both Freud and Jung’s ideas are important and influential. She initially trained as an Occupational Therapist and completed post graduate training with leading Australian Family Therapist Michael White. In 2017, Michelle completed a PhD with the University of Kent, Canterbury on how to narrate the transformative power of literature, meditation and walking in nature.
Michelle has worked as a counsellor for nearly 30 years in services such as child and adolescent mental health, child sexual abuse, family services, schools, alcohol and drug counselling and adult mental health services.
She currently divides her work between counselling and providing supervision/consultation to professionals in the counselling, health, legal, government, business, community, and education sectors.
Professional supervision is provided from her independent practice in Albury and online.