Tamsyn Spear, BACP

Tamsyn Spear is a BACP counsellor in the United Kingdom with 11 years of experience. She has worked in voluntary services, the NHS, and local council roles supporting people across different stages of life. She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, relationships and family concerns, and has recognized experience with parenting and carers.

Tamsyn describes an integrative way of working that blends several evidence-informed methods. She draws on Person-Centred counselling, Transactional Analysis and Gestalt, and she uses mindfulness, brief Cognitive Behavioural techniques, attachment ideas and systemic family practice when these suit a person’s needs. Sessions are collaborative and focus on the changes the client wants to make.

She has a background supporting children, young people and adults, and she has carried out therapy supervision and child and adolescent mental health work. That variety of settings means she is familiar with practical family pressures and the stresses of parenting and caring roles.

In sessions she helps people talk through relationship problems, family of origin issues, codependency patterns and communication difficulties. She also works with grief, trauma and addictions, and with issues such as low self-esteem, guilt, shame and a sense of emptiness.

Practical help often includes building coping skills, developing clearer boundaries, increasing motivation and strengthening confidence. She works together with clients to clarify goals and to plan gradual, manageable steps towards the changes they want to make.

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