About Tahira
Tahira Hussain is a BACP counsellor with 15 years of post-qualification experience. She supports people wrestling with stress, anxiety, depression and trauma. Her work also covers relationship difficulties, addictions and grief.
She offers therapy in English, Punjabi and Urdu. She uses a blend of practical talking therapies rather than one fixed method. Sessions focus on what the person wants to change and on small steps that can make day-to-day life easier.
Background and approach
Tahira pays attention to how past experiences shape current patterns and how those patterns affect relationships and mood. Her approach places the relationship between counsellor and person at the centre of therapy. She listens without judgment and helps people make sense of difficult feelings.
This often leads to clearer thinking and more useful ways to cope with upsetting events. Tahira draws on client-centred work, cognitive behavioural ideas and psychodynamic thinking. She adapts these to each person’s needs and goals.
That means sessions can include practical strategies, reflective conversation or a mix of both depending on the situation. She has worked across independent practice, digital services and specialist domestic abuse organisations. This background supports work with trauma, bereavement, abuse and complex life changes.
People who want to explore coping with panic, obsessive thinking, low self-esteem or life transitions may find her style grounded and straightforward.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening closely and responding to what matters most to the person. It helps when someone needs a supportive space to talk through feelings and make sense of life events. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, known as CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions are linked and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety and low mood. It is useful for panic, phobias, obsessive thinking and mood management. Trauma-Focused Therapy works with the memories and reactions that follow abuse or loss, using careful pacing and grounding techniques to reduce overwhelm.Choosing an approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk about options and adapt methods to suit the person’s goals and preferences. Some people prefer practical skill-building, while others want to explore how past experiences shape today's choices, and often therapy combines both.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people see each other and work more like in-person sessions. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or the client prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging suit short check-ins, quick tools or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring duties and busy lives while keeping the focus on progress and practical change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Punjabi, Urdu
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