John Mclaughlin
Supportive counsellor for stress, relationships and change
About John
John Mclaughlin practises as a counsellor in the United Kingdom and holds BACP registration. He has six years of professional experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, low mood, addiction and relationship difficulties. John aims to make the first step easier for someone who is worried or unsure about reaching out.
He works in a straightforward way. Sessions focus on what matters now and on practical steps a person can try between meetings.
Background and approach
John listens without judgment and helps people name their thoughts and feelings so they feel less overwhelming. John draws on a mix of approaches to suit each person. He uses cognitive behavioural ideas to spot thought patterns, acceptance and commitment techniques to clarify values and action, and attachment-informed work to look at how relationships shape feeling and behaviour.
These methods are adapted to the issue someone brings, such as grief, trauma, parenting pressures or workplace stress. People come for different things - improving sleep, dealing with anger, managing ADHD-related challenges, or coping with life changes. John also offers support around intimacy concerns, body image, obsessive or addictive behaviours, and caregiving strain.
He is familiar with care needs linked to chronic illness and ageing. His style is calm, direct and collaborative. Clients set goals together with John and review progress as they go.
Sessions are offered online by video, phone, live chat or messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
What John works with
How John works
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Sessions & fees
Approach and online sessions that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take practical steps towards those values, even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions to find small changes that can reduce anxiety or low mood. Attachment-Based work examines how early and current relationship patterns affect reactions and closeness, which can help with relationship and intimacy concerns.Finding the right approach is a joint effort. John will discuss the options and tailor methods to each person’s goals, needs and preferences. That means working together to pick techniques that feel sensible and doable rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat and text-based messaging to fit different days and routines. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be simpler on low bandwidth, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging lets someone write between sessions. These options make it easier to maintain continuity and fit therapy around work, family and travel.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
