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Michael Halpin, BACP
- Credentials
- BACP
- Experience
- 4 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesSelf esteemDepressionADHD
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Michael Halpin offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety or low self-esteem. He explains things plainly and helps clients work out clear next steps. He aims to make the first steps feel manageable and steady for people who are unsure what to expect.
Michael uses conversations that respect each person's experience. He listens carefully and adapts sessions to individual needs rather than following a fixed script.
Background and approach
That means sessions can focus on immediate problems, deeper patterns, or both, depending on what a person wants. He draws on several different counselling approaches. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, helps break problems into thoughts, feelings and actions to find small changes that make a difference.
Attachment-based ways of working look at how early relationships shape current trust and closeness. Client-centred methods put the person's own goals and pace at the centre of the work. Michael also brings psychodynamic ideas and solution-focused techniques when these fit the moment.
Psychodynamic thinking can help people notice long-standing patterns. Solution-focused steps can quickly build practical plans and momentum. He holds a BACP registration, which reflects professional standards in the United Kingdom.
Michael has four years of professional experience and offers sessions in English. He is available to work with people in the UK and international clients who prefer online support.
How Michael’s approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current ways of connecting. Online sessions can help people notice patterns of trust and closeness and practise different ways of relating in everyday life. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings and actions and offers clear, practical exercises to change habits and reduce distress. This approach often suits anxiety, low mood, sleeping and eating difficulties.Finding the right way of working is part of the therapy. Michael will discuss options and help decide whether attachment-based ideas, CBT or a blend feels most useful. That choice is made together and can change over time as goals shift.
Online formats offer practical benefits. Video calls let therapists observe non-verbal cues and work through exercises together. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit around work or childcare. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work across different situations, while keeping the therapeutic relationship central.
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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
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