About John
John Mclaughlin is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with six years of experience and a BACP registration. He focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety and depression while supporting those facing relationship strain and issues around intimacy. He also assists with concerns such as addiction, grief, eating and sleeping difficulties, and parenting strain.
John aims to make sessions straightforward and practical. He encourages people to talk about what matters most to them and helps them find small, realistic steps forward.
How John works
He creates a calm, non-judgemental space where thoughts and feelings can be discussed openly. His background includes working with people who face career and life transitions, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and longer-term mood conditions such as bipolar disorder. He also has experience with attachment-related concerns, adoption and foster care questions, and issues connected to neurodiversity such as autism and Asperger syndrome.
In sessions John draws on approaches that focus on acceptance, relationships, and changing unhelpful thinking and behaviours. He mixes practical strategies with a warm, client-centred stance to meet each person’s needs. The focus is on what the person wants to change and what will fit their life.
People who choose John can expect direct, plainspoken support and help turning worries into manageable plans. He works with each person to set goals and to review progress in ways that feel relevant and doable.
John lists 14 ways of working on the entry:
- 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
What John works with
The areas below are the ones John selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online working
John uses approaches that help people notice what matters, understand relationships, and change unhelpful thinking and behaviour. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to notice difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to actions that match their values; it can help with anxiety, depression and life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting patterns of thinking and behaviour and testing them with practical exercises; it is often useful for stress, anxiety and mood concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and can support people dealing with attachment issues or relationship difficulties.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. John will talk through options and make choices together based on your concerns, goals and what feels most helpful. That collaborative process means methods can be adapted as you progress.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let you see each other and work through exercises together. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or you need a quick check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter, more frequent contact and people who prefer writing. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and busy days while keeping the focus on progress and practical change.
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