About Muriel
Muriel Tafts is a counsellor with a Foundation Degree in Integrated Counselling and four years of post-qualification experience. She works with people dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, career concerns, and major life changes. She uses clear, practical steps and a down-to-earth style in sessions.
Muriel creates a calm, non-judgemental space for people to talk about what is worrying them. She encourages curiosity about patterns of thinking, feeling and behaviour.
Background and approach
Early sessions focus on agreeing goals and checking progress every few weeks so people can see change happening. Her practice blends person-centred listening with cognitive behavioural tools and psychodynamic ideas. That mix helps people understand immediate coping strategies while also looking at deeper roots of problems.
Muriel often suggests simple activities to try between appointments to test what helps. She has experience supporting clients with anxiety, depression and workplace issues, and with pressures linked to relationships, family roles and midlife transition. Her work also covers concerns such as shame, loneliness, communication problems and sexual or identity questions.
Muriel is studying a Master of Science in Workplace Health and Wellbeing and has undertaken additional training in areas such as addiction, dementia and neurodiversity. Her background means she can offer practical explanations of conditions alongside reflective conversation. People who value a collaborative, gentle approach tend to find her helpful.
She aims to walk alongside clients while they practise new ways of coping and thinking.
How Muriel’s approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person’s experience without judgement. It helps people feel heard and supports self-directed change by reflecting what matters most to them.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It offers practical tools to reduce anxiety and stress, and often includes short tasks to try between sessions to test new ways of coping.
Psychodynamic Therapy pays attention to patterns that repeat over time and where they might come from. It can help people gain insight into longstanding relationship and emotional difficulties.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Muriel will work collaboratively to decide what helps most, adapting methods to the person’s goals and preferences. That means trying things out and checking progress regularly so the plan can change as needed.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a fuller interaction is helpful. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in fits better. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, journalling support or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and daily life while still getting regular professional support from registered or accredited professionals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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