About Timothy
Dr. Timothy Tobin is a licensed counselor with three decades of clinical work. He holds a PsyD and a master's degree in clinical psychology and has practiced across multiple states.
He brings steady, experienced care to people facing complicated life challenges. He often helps people who are struggling with addiction and compulsive behaviors, or who carry symptoms of anxiety and depression. He also supports people wrestling with grief, major life changes, and struggles with meaning, faith, or existential concerns.
Background and approach
ADHD is listed among his focus areas and may be part of the concerns discussed in sessions. Dr. Tobin uses clear, direct conversation and practical tools.
Sessions are grounded in approaches like client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral techniques, with options from dialectical behavior work and emotionally-focused methods when helpful. He aims to make difficult topics easier to talk about and understand.
He is comfortable discussing experiences that some find hard to explain, including anomalous or unusual events, and he offers a nonjudgmental space for people to process those memories. People who feel reluctant to bring up unusual experiences often find it easier to speak about them here.
In practice he focuses on helping people identify what is getting in the way of day-to-day functioning, learn coping skills, and develop clearer goals. He works with adults across a wide range of life issues, offering steady guidance developed over 30 years of practice.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding. It emphasizes the person's own goals and values and helps people feel heard while they decide next steps.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, works by identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing them into more useful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and behavior change work such as addictions or compulsive habits.
Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal interactions. It can be useful when strong emotions or impulsive behaviors interfere with daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. He will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. That choice can be adjusted as work progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation, phone can be a lower-bandwidth option, and messaging or live chat allow for shorter check-ins or written reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit care around work, family, and other commitments.
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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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