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Tim McLoughlin, NCPS
- Credentials
- NCPS
- Experience
- 9 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesGriefSelf esteemDepression
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Tim McLoughlin is a counsellor with nine years of experience who draws on several therapy styles to help people during difficult times. He works in the United Kingdom and uses practical, down-to-earth language so clients can feel understood quickly. Tim holds the NCPS credential and combines talking therapies with mindful techniques to meet individual needs.
He often supports people facing stress, anxiety and depression. Relationship and intimacy issues are common topics, along with grief and coping after major life changes.
Background and approach
He also helps clients dealing with addictions, self-esteem struggles and career pressures. Tim blends attachment-based ideas with client-centred listening. He uses cognitive behavioural techniques to notice and shift unhelpful thinking.
Mindfulness practices are offered to reduce overwhelm and improve day-to-day coping. His background includes independent practice work and experience supporting people in hospice settings. That experience informs how he approaches bereavement and serious illness, bringing calm and steady support without judgement.
Sessions are tailored to each person's pace and goals. Tim aims to create a respectful space where people can talk things through, try out new ways of thinking, and practise different responses. He helps people take small, clear steps toward feeling better.
He accepts international clients and offers a range of online formats to fit different lives. To begin, people complete a brief matching questionnaire and then arrange sessions according to availability.
Approaches you can try in online sessions
Tim commonly uses attachment-based work to look at how early relationships affect current patterns. This helps people understand why they repeat the same difficulties in relationships and how to build more supported ways of relating.He also applies client-centred counselling which focuses on listening closely and reflecting back what matters to the person. That approach helps clients feel heard and make clearer choices about next steps.
Cognitive behavioural techniques are used to spot unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of responding. These methods are practical and can help with anxiety, depression and stress by changing habits of thinking and behaviour.
Choosing an approach is part of the therapy process. Tim works collaboratively to find what fits an individual's needs and preferences, and he adjusts methods as progress develops. Goals and pace are agreed together so the work feels manageable.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions suit when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging can support ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel.
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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
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