Tamsyn Spear, BACP

Tamsyn Spear is an integrative counsellor with over a decade of practice supporting children, young people, adults and families across voluntary services and the NHS in the United Kingdom. She has worked in roles including counselling, therapy supervision and child and adolescent mental health, and has also provided therapeutic support through local council services earlier in her career. Her practice emphasises collaboration - she works alongside people to identify the changes that matter to them and to build practical steps toward those goals.

She supports a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, low mood and depression, relationship and family difficulties, parenting challenges, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, anger and compassion fatigue. Tamsyn also focuses on related issues such as attachment and blended family dynamics, codependency, communication and control problems, feelings of emptiness, and midlife transitions. She offers help with building motivation, self-esteem and confidence, and with processing difficult life experiences to move forward.

Tamsyn describes her approach as integrative, grounded in Person-Centred practice where the client-therapist relationship is nonjudgmental and empathetic. She also draws on Transactional Analysis and Gestalt, together with mindfulness techniques, systemic family practice, attachment theory, creative therapies and brief Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. She holds BACP - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy credential, reflecting professional affiliation and standards of practice.