Michael Halpin
Practical, person-focused support for life’s challenges
About Michael
Michael Halpin helps people who are feeling stuck, overwhelmed or worried find a clearer way forward. He works with common struggles such as stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and depression, and supports people facing relationship difficulties, grief, addiction concerns and issues around intimacy. Michael uses everyday language and listens with care so conversations are easy to follow.
He draws on several practical therapy styles to shape sessions around each person's needs.
Background and approach
That can mean focusing on how past attachments affect current relationships, working on thinking patterns that drive anxiety, or using short-term, goal-focused conversations to tackle a specific problem. Sessions are conversational and aimed at making changes that feel manageable. Michael holds BACP registration, which is noted as his credential.
He has four years of experience working with people on a range of life challenges, including parenting stress, career uncertainty, bipolar mood concerns, and trauma or abuse recovery. He also pays attention to issues such as body image, communication problems and care-giver strain.
People often come wanting clearer coping strategies, fewer panic moments, or better communication with the important people in their lives. Michael will work with each person to set realistic goals and practical steps toward them. He aims to make therapy something that fits a client's life rather than adding more pressure.
Sessions are offered in English and Michael accepts international clients. He provides a flexible mix of video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
What Michael works with
How Michael works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connections. It helps people understand their reactions in close relationships and build steadier ways of relating. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small experiments. This approach is useful for anxiety, low mood and habit changes. Client-centred therapy offers a warm, non-judgemental space where the person leads the conversation and the counsellor mirrors and clarifies what matters most to them.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Michael will discuss these styles and together you will decide which approach or combination feels most useful for your goals. That collaborative step helps make sessions feel relevant and realistic from the start.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls suit deeper, face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera, and live chat or text-based messaging is handy for brief check-ins and when scheduling is tight. These options let people fit therapy around work, caring duties or travel, while still keeping the focus on progress and achievable coping strategies.
| 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
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
