About Timothy
Dr. Timothy Tobin is a licensed counselor with three decades of clinical work behind him. He holds a master’s degree and a PsyD in clinical psychology and is credentialed as an LPC and an LCMHC.
He practices from Utah and offers services in English, including to international clients. He focuses on anxiety and stress alongside addictions and trauma. He also helps people facing grief, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, and major life changes.
Background and approach
He is experienced with complex issues that can feel hard to explain, such as unusual or anomalous experiences, and aims to provide a respectful space for those conversations. In sessions he blends practical talk with structured techniques. He draws on client-centered methods to follow what matters most to the person in front of him.
He uses cognitive behavioral strategies to address thinking and behavior patterns that keep anxiety or addictive behavior going. He also incorporates skills from dialectical behavior therapy to help manage strong emotions and from emotionally-focused and existential approaches when people want to work on attachment, meaning, or life direction. That mix lets him tailor sessions to each person’s needs and concerns.
Dr. Tobin offers video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging options for therapy. He describes therapy as a collaborative process where goals are set together and progress is tracked in concrete ways.
Approach-driven care for online sessions
Dr. Tobin often draws from client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening and following the person's own goals and values to guide sessions. This approach is useful for building trust and working through difficult personal experiences or spiritual questions.He also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety and change unhelpful behavior patterns. Dialectical behavior therapy techniques may be added when someone needs tools to manage intense emotions and improve coping in stressful moments.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. He treats the choice of methods as collaborative, helping each person decide what fits their goals, symptoms, and preferences. That may mean trying a few techniques and adapting them over time.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for a fuller therapeutic exchange, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, brief check-ins work well by text or chat, and messaging suits those who prefer written reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep working on anxiety, grief, addiction, and other concerns across different settings.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Utah
- Languages
- English
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