About Tracey
Tracey Austin-Plahe is a counsellor who uses an integrative approach to help people manage stress and anxiety. She is a member of the British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists, and she aims to make the first steps into therapy feel less daunting. Tracey listens without judgement and focuses on practical ways to regain a sense of control.
Tracey works with many common life challenges. These include relationship difficulties, family conflict, grief and loss, low motivation and low self-esteem.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, trauma and issues around intimacy and body image. Her style blends different therapies so sessions match what each person needs. She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at relational patterns, client-centred listening to follow what matters most to the person, and cognitive techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviours.
Over five years she has helped people develop coping skills for dealing with change, managing emotions, and improving communication. She also offers support around parenting stress, caregiving strain, and concerns tied to ageing and chronic illness. Sessions are offered in English and take place online by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging.
Tracey is based in the United Kingdom and does not take international clients. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions to suit their availability.
How Tracey blends proven approaches for online work
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early and current relationships shape feelings and behaviour. It can help people understand patterns that affect trust, intimacy and reactions to stress. Client-Centred Therapy places the person at the heart of the session, offering empathic listening and space for someone to tell their story in their own way. This approach supports self-understanding and emotional processing. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions connect and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, low mood and coping skills.Finding the best approach is part of the work. Tracey will discuss options with each person and decide together what fits their needs, goals and preferences. That collaborative process means methods can be adjusted over time as the person makes progress or as priorities change.
Online sessions are offered via video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and more conversational work. Phone sessions can be a shorter check-in or suit lower bandwidth moments. Live chat and text messaging can be useful for ongoing reflection or when people prefer not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, care duties or other commitments while keeping the focus on practical change and emotional support.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- 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
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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