About Moira
Moira McCarthy is a counsellor with 18 years of experience in the United Kingdom. She offers one-to-one work and leads group sessions, using a mixture of practical talking therapies to help people manage difficult feelings. Her approach aims to make sessions straightforward and approachable for someone worried and looking for support.
Her background includes membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and registration with NCPS. Those credentials guide how she works and the professional frameworks she follows.
How Moira works
Moira keeps her clinical work under regular supervision to maintain professional standards. In sessions she draws on client-centred listening to put the person’s experience first. She also uses cognitive behavioural ideas to help spot unhelpful thoughts and try new ways of coping.
Emotionally-focused and attachment-based approaches are used when relationships or early attachments shape current difficulties. Moira helps people with stress, anxiety, low mood, grief and trauma. She also supports those dealing with addictions, relationship and family tensions, parenting pressures, sleeping problems, anger and career strain.
Other areas she addresses include chronic illness, caregiving stress, body image, immigration and issues linked to adoption or abandonment. Sessions are practical and collaborative. Moira aims to create a warm space where clients can talk, try small changes between meetings and build clearer ways to cope.
She adapts her methods to each person’s needs rather than following a single fixed model.
Moira lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Moira works with
The areas below are the ones Moira selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | BACP, NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Moira commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy and Client-Centred Therapy in her online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and it can be useful for anxiety, stress and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape how someone connects now and can help with relationship pain, trust or abandonment issues. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and responding to the person’s experience so they feel heard and can find their own solutions.Finding the right approach is a team effort. Moira discusses options with each person and tailors methods to their needs, goals and preferences. She may blend approaches and review what is working as therapy progresses, so the plan can change if needed.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video calls work well for in-depth conversation and non-verbal cues, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging allow shorter check-ins or ongoing support between longer sessions, and they can fit around work or family commitments. These options make it easier to get regular support without travelling to appointments.
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