About (Taz)
(Taz) Tuba Altintas-Gemmell is a counsellor with eight years of experience based in the United Kingdom. She holds BACP accreditation, and she speaks English and Turkish. Tuba helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression and relationship concerns.
She also supports those coping with grief, addiction, self-esteem problems and life changes. Tuba describes her work as person-centred. She listens carefully and adapts conversations to each person's needs.
Sessions focus on practical steps alongside talking through feelings.
Background and approach
She also combines coaching-style goal setting when clients want clear, manageable aims. Her background includes approaches such as cognitive behavioural therapy and emotionally-focused work. Tuba uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns.
She offers flexible formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. People come to her for a wide range of issues beyond anxiety and mood. These include intimacy-related concerns, eating and sleeping difficulties, parenting strain, career stress, ADHD and compassion fatigue.
She also notes experience with body image, chronic illness, caregiver stress and communication problems. Tuba aims to create a warm, respectful space where people are treated with kindness and sensitivity. She works collaboratively to tailor plans to each person.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire and scheduling step are used so clients can choose a time that suits them.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships influence current patterns. It looks at connection and trust, and it can help with relationship difficulties, abandonment worries and attachment issues.Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, targets unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. Sessions often include practical exercises and small tasks to try between meetings, which can help with anxiety, low mood and sleeping or eating problems.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy centres on identifying and shifting emotional responses in relationships. It is commonly used when people want to understand intimacy, communication problems or strong emotional reactions in close connections.
Finding the best approach is a shared process. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences and recommend methods that fit your needs. Together you will review progress and adjust the plan if something feels unhelpful.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. Video lets you use visual cues and longer conversational work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging suit brief updates, ongoing reflection, or people who prefer writing over speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family commitments and different time zones.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Turkish
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