In 1981, Tim established Western States Training Associates along with his business partner, Suzi Smith, a training organization based in Salt Lake City, Utah, which later became known as Anchorpoint Institute. In 1985, he began to conduct NLP Practitioner Trainings, and worked in close conjunction with Steve Andreas and Connirae Andreas of NLP Colorado and Robert Dilts. In 1999, Tim moved to the San Francisco Bay Area and established the NLP & Coaching Institute of California (NLPCA), with his wife, Kris Hallbom.

Tim received his MA in Social Work from the University of Utah, and is a Certified trainer in the field of NLP.

Tim Hallbom has developed numerous NLP methods, including methods for helping people identify and change limiting beliefs, create better relationships, deal well with trauma, integrate inner conflicts and communicate more effectively with their unconscious minds. He has refined methods for the use of eye accessing cues to identify the origins of personal issues, and has created methods for using eye accessing cues to resolve personal issues. 1981, Tim co-founded a NLP Training Institute in Salt Lake City, Utah, with Suzi Smith, Western States Training Associates, which later published the NLP Journal Anchorpoint.

In 1999, Tim moved to the San Francisco Bay area and is currently the Director of Training at the NLP and Coaching Institute of California, an NLP and Coach training organization that provides personal and professional development training programs to individuals from all over the world.

Tim is also the co-creator, along with his wife, Kris, of the WealthyMind Seminars where people can learn how to identify and change unconscious limiting beliefs about how to create the lives that they really want to live.

In 2009, Tim Hallbom was granted a Diplomate by The International Academy of Behavioral Medicine, Counseling, andPsychotherapy, Inc. (IABMCP) for the field of coaching. Tim Hallbom was also the past President of the National Association of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NANLP), which later became the International Association of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (IANLP), and is a founding member and past President of the Institute for the Advanced Studies in Health (IASH), a non-for-profit NLP research organization. He currently is an adviser to IASH. He is a member of the International Coach Federation.

Tim is the co-author of several books including Beliefs: Pathways to Health and Well-Being", "NLP: The New Technology of Achievement", and "Coaching in the Workplace". He has also authored numerous articles and has created a number of audio and video publications.