About Tamsyn
Tamsyn Spear is a BACP counsellor with over 11 years of experience working across the UK. She offers calm, straightforward support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low mood or difficult life changes. Tamsyn creates a welcoming space where clients can talk through what matters to them and start making small, manageable changes.
Her background includes roles in the voluntary sector, the NHS and local council services, working with adults, children and young people.
Background and approach
She has also provided therapeutic support for parents and carers facing the pressures of raising children. Tamsyn uses an integrative approach that centres the client. She draws on person-centred ideas so the relationship feels non-judgemental and empathetic.
Transactional analysis and Gestalt help her explore patterns in thinking and behaviour with clients. She also uses brief cognitive behavioural techniques and mindfulness tools to help with stress, anxiety, motivation and low self-esteem. Systemic family practice and attachment thinking inform work around family problems, blended family issues and communication difficulties.
Typical concerns she supports include relationship difficulties, grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, parenting strain, anger and compassion fatigue. She also works with issues such as codependency, guilt and shame, loneliness, life purpose and midlife challenges. Tamsyn aims to collaborate with each person to agree goals and practical steps.
Sessions focus on what the person wants to change and on building confidence to make those changes in daily life.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Her practice blends person-centred work with clear, practical techniques. Person-centred counselling focuses on a respectful, empathetic relationship so people feel heard and understood; it helps when anxiety or low mood make talking hard. Brief cognitive behavioural techniques look at unhelpful thoughts and small behavioural steps to ease symptoms of anxiety and stress.She will work collaboratively to choose which approaches suit each person. The therapist and client discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, then try methods together and adjust them over time. Finding the right mix is part of the process rather than a fixed promise.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls allow a fuller conversational experience, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat can suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and other commitments while keeping the focus on practical steps and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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