About Tanya
Tanya Perrin is a counsellor who uses an integrative, client-centred approach. She combines straightforward talk with practical strategies to help people manage stress and anxiety. Tanya draws on ten years of professional work in the United Kingdom and holds BACP registration.
She supports people facing grief, loss and bereavement, and has experience working with cancer-related concerns and palliative care. She also helps with anger, self-esteem, intimacy-related worries, sleeping problems and ADHD-related challenges.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with people who have complex mental health needs and experience in school counselling. Tanya adapts sessions to each person. That can mean calmer, reflective conversations or focused skill-building exercises.
She uses techniques from cognitive behavioural therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and from mindfulness to build grounding and present-moment awareness. Her practice also draws on dialectical behaviour ideas for managing strong emotions and on existential themes when people are questioning meaning, purpose or identity. Tanya aims to keep things practical, clear and compassionate in every session.
She works with the pace each person needs. People are invited to shape their own goals and to try approaches that suit them. Tanya emphasises respect and sensitivity, and she helps clients take small, steady steps toward feeling more able and more in control.
Therapeutic approaches and online delivery
Client-centred therapy focuses on the person in the room and on what they want to change. It involves open conversation, reflective listening and tailoring the process to each person's needs. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, helps people spot and change unhelpful thought patterns and try different behaviours to reduce anxiety and stress. Dialectical behaviour therapy, or DBT, offers practical skills for managing intense emotions and improving tolerance for distress. Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and then suggest techniques to try. This is a collaborative process, and adjustments are made as progress and needs become clearer. Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people meet face to face from different locations, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when being on camera is difficult, and live chat or text-based messaging can support quick check-ins or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options provide flexibility for different schedules and practical circumstances while allowing the therapist to use CBT exercises, mindfulness practices and DBT skills in real time or between meetings.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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