About Tanya
Tanya Joseph uses a client-centred approach to make sessions feel collaborative and straightforward. She focuses on listening first, then working with each person to set small, achievable goals. Tanya aims to create a calm, respectful space where people can talk about what is most worrying them.
She combines mindfulness and narrative techniques to help people notice unhelpful patterns and change the stories they tell about themselves. Tanya also draws on somatic ideas to help with stress held in the body.
How Tanya works
This mix is often used for anxiety, low mood, trauma, and sleep problems. Over nine years she has supported people facing addiction, anger, grief, bipolar difficulties, and compassion fatigue. Tanya also helps with parenting stress, career concerns, relationship issues, and challenges connected to ADHD or attachment problems.
Her practice includes work with chronic illness, caregiving strain, and dissociation-related problems. Tanya is registered with the BACP, which she lists as her professional credential. She works from the United Kingdom and conducts sessions in English.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs. Practical help in sessions can include short grounding exercises, rewriting personal narratives, planning small steps, and checking how the body responds to stress. She asks straightforward questions and adapts the pace to each person.
Starting therapy usually begins by filling in a brief questionnaire and arranging sessions that fit the person's schedule.
Tanya lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Tanya works with
The areas below are the ones Tanya selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Tanya’s Approaches Work Online
Tanya often uses client-centred work to keep the focus on what matters most to the person. This approach means the conversation is led by the client’s concerns and pace, and practical goals are set together.She also uses mindfulness practices to help people notice stress and manage anxiety. These are short exercises that can be done during a video call or between sessions to improve sleep and reduce tension. Narrative therapy is used to look at the stories people tell about themselves and to rewrite those stories in more helpful ways, which can be useful for grief, low self-esteem, and trauma recovery.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. Tanya will discuss options and try methods that fit the person’s needs and preferences. Together they choose techniques and adjust them as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls work well for deeper conversation and body-based exercises. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a lunch break. Live chat or messaging suit short check-ins and people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to attend sessions from wherever a quieter space is available and to keep therapy consistent around other commitments.
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