Moira McCarthy, BACP, NCPS

BACP, NCPS. Eighteen years' experience. Moira McCarthy works with adults and 18 year olds, offering one-to-one counselling and group therapy. She focuses on common problems such as stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and family concerns, and issues around parenting and sleep.

Moira uses a mix of client-centred and cognitive behavioural approaches alongside attachment-based ideas and emotionally focused methods. In practice this means sessions centre on what the person brings, with practical ways to notice thoughts and feelings and try small changes between meetings. She also runs wellbeing workshops for local authorities and businesses.

Her work has included supporting people coping with trauma and abuse, addictions, bipolar difficulties, chronic illness and cancer, and complex family matters such as adoption, blended families and attachment questions. Moira lists additional focus areas including abandonment, body image, caregiver stress, immigration-related problems and infidelity.

She is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and the National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society. Moira attends regular clinical supervision as part of her practice and follows the BACP theoretical framework in her work.

Sessions aim to be straightforward and conversational. People are encouraged to set practical goals and try strategies between sessions where that fits. For those seeking group work, she runs structured workshops as well as individual counselling.

How her approaches work in online counselling