About Tara
Tara Massie works from a person-centred approach that puts the client's perspective at the heart of therapy. She uses simple, honest conversation to help people manage stress, anxiety, low mood and grief. Sessions aim to rebuild self-esteem and motivation so everyday life feels more manageable.
Tara tailors each conversation to the person in front of her. She listens with respect and sensitivity and helps people notice patterns that hold them back.
Background and approach
That might mean talking through childhood or recent trauma, or practical ways to cope with long-term health conditions. Her practice includes support for people facing major life changes, chronic pain or illness, caregiver stress, and the emotional impact of bereavement. She also works with concerns such as abandonment, communication problems, guilt and shame, and issues connected to cancer or HIV/AIDS.
With seven years of counselling experience, Tara brings steady, calm support to difficult topics. She is registered with the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists, BACP. Sessions are conducted in English and are offered across a range of online formats.
People who choose her often want straightforward, warm conversation rather than medical jargon. She encourages trying a short block of sessions to see if the approach helps. Scheduling is done by a short online matching process and then booking according to available times.
Person-centred care and online counselling options
Tara works from a Client-Centred Therapy approach that emphasises listening, empathy and the person's own goals. This way of working helps people who feel stuck, anxious, low in confidence or dealing with grief to be heard and to make their own changes.In practice she follows the client's pace and priorities, using supportive conversation to explore feelings and everyday patterns. That approach can be helpful for managing stress, coping with chronic illness or navigating life changes, because it focuses on what matters most to the individual.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Tara will discuss what feels most useful and adapt sessions based on a client's needs, goals and preferences. She treats the choice of methods as a collaborative decision rather than a fixed plan.
Online therapy with this counsellor is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when seeing expressions matters, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a lunch break, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging provides ongoing written reflection between meetings. These options give flexibility for different schedules and practical needs.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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