Tim McLoughlin
Compassionate counsellor blending practical and reflective tools
About Tim
Tim McLoughlin is a counsellor with nine years' experience helping people through hard times. He works in the United Kingdom and speaks English. Tim draws on a mix of practical approaches to help people feel less stuck and more able to manage day-to-day life.
His work often focuses on stress, anxiety and depression. He also helps with relationship and intimacy-related issues, grief and bereavement, parenting concerns, career doubts, addictions, and self-esteem.
Background and approach
Tim supports people navigating major life changes and those coping with long-term illness or disability. In sessions he takes a warm, interactive style. Tim treats people with respect and sensitivity and avoids stigmatising labels.
He aims to make sessions straightforward and responsive to what each person needs in the moment. Tim uses a blend of Attachment-Based, client-centred, cognitive behavioural and psychodynamic ideas plus mindfulness practices. That mix means he can work on immediate coping skills, explore patterns that repeat in relationships, and support longer-term change.
People can expect practical conversation, short exercises they can try between sessions, and gentle exploration of past experiences when that feels useful. He has experience in independent practice and in hospice settings, where he has supported people facing bereavement and serious illness. To begin, Tim asks people to describe their main concerns so he can tailor sessions.
He aims to help clients build clearer choices, build coping skills, and find ways to move forward at their own pace.
What Tim works with
How Tim works
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Sessions & fees
How Tim’s approaches translate to online therapy
Tim uses a mix of Attachment-Based, client-centred and cognitive behavioural approaches. Attachment-Based work looks at how past relationships affect current patterns and can help with relationship and intimacy difficulties. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so people feel heard and can find their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) offers practical tools and short exercises to reduce anxiety, manage mood and change unhelpful thinking.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Tim will discuss your goals and preferences and together you will decide which methods to try first. That collaborative planning means therapy can shift if your needs change over time.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and exercises that benefit from seeing each other. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a short break. Live chat or text messaging can work for brief check-ins, ongoing reflection between sessions, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and travel, while keeping continuity with the same counsellor.
| 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
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- 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
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
