About (Taz)
(Taz) Tuba Altintas-Gemmell trained and practised as a counsellor in the United Kingdom. She has eight years of experience supporting people through worry, low mood and relationship strain. Tuba speaks English and Turkish and combines talking therapy with practical coaching to help people set realistic goals.
Tuba works in a person-centred way and keeps sessions focused on what matters to each individual. She uses listening, reflection and direct questions to help people make sense of difficult feelings.
How (Taz) works
Sessions are adapted to each person rather than following a fixed script. Her work covers stress and anxiety, depression, trauma and grief, addiction and self-harm, and issues around intimacy and identity. She also helps with sleeping problems, eating concerns, parenting strains, career worries and coping with life changes.
Tuba offers support for people navigating attachment and abandonment concerns or communication problems. She uses a mix of approaches including attachment-based ideas, cognitive behavioural techniques and emotionally focused methods to guide conversations and practical tasks. Tuba also draws on relationship-based work when relevant and keeps the person at the centre of planning.
Tuba aims to create a calm space where people can talk openly and try small changes between sessions. She will work collaboratively to set clear, manageable steps and review progress over time. If a coaching focus is useful, she can help translate goals into action plans.
People who prefer straightforward, empathetic talking therapy and practical goal-setting tend to find her approach useful. Tuba is happy to work with international clients and offers sessions in both English and Turkish.
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What (Taz) works with
The areas below are the ones (Taz) selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- 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
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English, Turkish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How her therapeutic approaches work online
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns shape present feelings and reactions, helping people understand why they connect or pull away in close relationships and offering ways to try different responses. Client-centred therapy places the person at the heart of the process, using empathic listening and reflection so clients can find their own solutions and build self-trust. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviours and testing small changes that can reduce anxiety or low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what has helped or not helped before, then recommend ways of working to try first. This is a collaborative process and methods can adapt as progress is reviewed.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video is useful for fuller conversation and non-verbal cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins and text messaging supports shorter, continued contact between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments while maintaining continuity of care.
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