About John
John Mclaughlin is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with six years of experience. He focuses on anxiety and stress among other concerns. He aims to create a calm space where people can speak openly about what is worrying them.
John keeps sessions straightforward and practical. He listens first, then helps people spot patterns that keep problems going. Together they work out small steps to try between sessions and check what helps.
Background and approach
He supports people with relationship strain, family issues, low self-esteem and motivation. He also helps with depression, grief, addictions and sleep or eating difficulties. There is experience supporting those managing career stress, compassion fatigue, ADHD and wider life transitions.
John uses a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs, including acceptance and commitment ideas and cognitive behavioural techniques. He also draws on attachment-based and client-centred ways of working to focus on how relationships and past experiences shape current feelings. Sessions are offered in English and can be arranged online by international clients.
Costs vary with location and therapist availability and run on a subscription that you can cancel at any time. To begin, use the Start Therapy button and complete the short matching questionnaire.
Approaches and online support for anxiety and life stressors
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting trapped by them. It focuses on values and small committed actions that move a person towards a more meaningful life. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and teaches practical tools to change unhelpful patterns. These methods are often used together to address anxiety, low mood and stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. John will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and suggest ways of working that fit. The choice of methods is collaborative and may change as progress is made.
Online therapy offers different ways to connect. Video calls let people see facial cues and share a fuller conversation. Phone sessions can be less demanding on bandwidth and work well for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick updates, ongoing coaching-style support or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep continuity across locations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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