Meet Michelle
Michelle Burke has spent over 15 years working exclusively with women — supporting clients through some of the most significant moments of their lives. She helps women navigate fertility, pregnancy, recovery, motherhood, surgery, burnout and menopause with compassionate and specialist support. And the quieter, harder seasons that don't have a name but are just as real.
What makes Michelle different is not just her qualifications — though they are extensive. It is that she understands this territory not only as a clinician, but as a woman who has navigated her own significant health challenges.
She built Lavender Health because she knew this level of specialist, joined-up care needed to exist.
Her Background...
Michelle's professional life has always centred on women — from her early career in fitness and pregnancy exercise through to advanced clinical therapy, rehabilitation and coaching.
Over fifteen years she has built one of the most comprehensive specialist practices in Kent, training extensively with Burrell Education — widely regarded as the gold standard in women's health therapy — alongside qualifications in manual lymphatic drainage, certified scar therapy, menopause specialism and therapeutic coaching.
She is currently completing a CPCAB Level 4 Integrative Counselling qualification, expected July 2027, and is a BACP Member. She also tutors on the Burrell Education Therapeutic Coaching Diploma — meaning she is not just trained in this work, she teaches it.
Every qualification Michelle holds was chosen deliberately. Each one fills a gap in what women can access locally. Together they make Lavender Health something genuinely unique in Kent.
Her Qualifications...
Manual Therapy — Certified Scar Therapist — Manual Lymphatic Drainage — Pre & Post Surgery MLD Qualification — Reiki Qualified
Postnatal & Rehabilitation — Burrell Education: Screening & Assessing the Postnatal Client — Burrell Education: Advanced Postnatal Wellness — Burrell Education: Pelvic Floor & Core Rehabilitation — Burrell Education: Optimal Nutrition & Lifestyle for Postnatal Healing — Postnatal Fitness Trainer — 15 Years Teaching Buggy Fitness Classes
Pregnancy — Burrell Education: Pregnancy Massage & Remedial Therapy — Pregnancy Personal Trainer — Pregnancy Water Aerobics Instructor, Advanced Pregnancy Practitioner
Menopause — Burrell Education: 3rd Age Woman — Menopause Specialist Certification (40 guided learning hours)
Therapeutic Coaching — Therapeutic Coaching Diploma, Burrell Education — Tutors on this course — CPCAB Level 4 Integrative Counselling — in progress, expected July 2027 — BACP Member
Her Clinical Experience...
Qualifications tell you what someone has studied. Experience tells you who they are in the room.
Michelle has spent two years working on a neonatal ward supporting mothers — particularly those recovering from C-sections — through massage therapy and postnatal care. She volunteers with a baby bereavement charity. She has supported women through IVF, pregnancy loss, difficult recoveries and the transitions that formal healthcare often has no time to address.
This breadth of real-world clinical and human experience is woven into every session at The Lavender Room — not as a talking point, but as the foundation of how Michelle works.
The Lavender Room
The Lavender Room is a private garden studio at Michelle's home in Strood, Kent.
It was designed with one purpose — to give women a space where they feel completely safe, completely unhurried and completely cared for.
There is no waiting room full of strangers. No back-to-back appointments. No clinical lighting.
Just a calm, private space where your session begins the moment you arrive — and where nothing is rushed.
All sessions are one-to-one with Michelle. Always.