Tim Aitchison
Helping people build self-worth and clearer choices
About Tim
Tim Aitchison offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by self-doubt, loss or life change. He focuses on helping people notice how they feel about themselves and use that awareness to make clearer choices. Tim speaks plainly and aims to make sessions feel like a steady, non-judgemental conversation.
He has four years' experience as a counsellor and holds BACP membership, which he follows in his day-to-day practice. Tim draws on client-centred ways of working to build a trusting relationship where people can speak openly.
Background and approach
He also uses motivational approaches to help people make changes they want to see. Tim has worked with people facing grief, trauma, depression, anxiety and addiction. He has supported those with serious physical health problems and people recovering from traumatic events in emergency services.
His practice also includes work around intimacy, body image, parenting stresses and career pressures. Sessions focus on practical steps and simple conversations. Tim helps people understand their feelings, reduce unhelpful patterns, and find realistic next steps.
He checks in frequently to make sure the work still fits the person’s goals. People often come to him for help with sleep problems, anger, guilt, or feelings of abandonment and shame. He also supports those dealing with chronic illness, caregiver stress, and issues related to alternative sexual cultures.
Tim aims to help people reconnect with a stronger sense of self and clearer day-to-day choices.
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Sessions & fees
Approaches that guide online counselling
Client-centred therapy focuses on the person in the room and on building a respectful, accepting relationship. It helps when someone needs a steady listener and practical support to understand their feelings and choices.Motivational interviewing is a short-term way of working that helps people find their own reasons to change. It is useful for addictions, behavioural shifts, and when someone feels stuck between wanting change and holding back.
Trauma-focused therapy concentrates on easing the impact of past traumatic events and on learning new ways to cope. It can be a good fit for people dealing with abuse, emergency service trauma, or distressing memories.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and how different methods might help, and then agree a plan together. This makes sessions collaborative and responsive to changing needs.
Online therapy offers flexibility across formats - video calls for fuller conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, live chat for quicker check-ins, and text messaging for shorter reflections. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or mobility limits and help maintain regular contact between appointments.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| 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
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
