About Tamzin
Tamzin Brain is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with 14 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety or low self-esteem. Tamzin works with clients who are coping with grief, trauma, sleep problems and life changes, and she also supports those dealing with parenting pressures and career challenges.
Her style is warm and person-centred. She listens carefully to each person's story and tailors sessions to what matters most to them.
How Tamzin works
Tamzin uses a mix of approaches so sessions can include practical skills, emotional processing and reflection depending on the situation. Clients can expect to explore patterns that keep them stuck and practise small changes that make day-to-day life easier. She helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, manage strong emotions and build skills for coping with difficult moments.
Work may also cover relationship patterns, body image, chronic health worries and issues around attachment and abandonment. Tamzin is listed with NCPS, which is shown as her credential. Sessions are offered in English and she works online using video, phone, live chat and text-based messaging.
International clients are not currently accepted. Practical matters such as cost vary by location and a subscription model is used for sessions; this can be cancelled at any time. To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to the therapist's availability.
Tamzin lists 15 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Hypnotherapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
What Tamzin works with
The areas below are the ones Tamzin selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Tamzin’s approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and then choose actions that match their values. It often focuses on small, practical steps to live more in line with what matters. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and teaches skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, depression and sleep problems. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationship patterns shape current connections and can help with fears of abandonment and trust issues.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Tamzin will discuss what feels most useful and adapt methods to a person's goals and preferences. Sessions are collaborative so the client and counsellor decide together which techniques to try and when to change direction.
Online therapy offers flexibility. Video calls make face-to-face conversation possible when travel is difficult. Phone sessions use less data and can suit shorter check-ins. Live chat or text-based messaging can work for people who prefer writing or need a quicker way to stay in touch between longer sessions. These options help fit therapy around work, childcare and other commitments while still allowing focused therapeutic work.
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