About Tracey
Tracey Austin-Plahe offers an integrative, client-focused approach that draws on attachment work, cognitive techniques and person-centred listening. She uses short, clear sessions to help people get a handle on stress, anxiety and relationship concerns. Tracey speaks plain language and aims to make first steps feel manageable and direct.
She works with people facing a wide range of problems including grief, depression, bipolar mood concerns, addiction and trauma. She also supports clients dealing with parenting strain, career pressure, body image and eating or sleeping difficulties.
How Tracey works
Issues such as abandonment, attachment concerns and codependency are part of her additional focus areas. Tracey takes a collaborative style. She listens, reflects and helps people identify practical steps for coping.
Cognitive strategies are used alongside an exploration of past attachment patterns to build clearer choices in relationships and everyday life. Her background includes five years of practice and registration with the British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists, known as BACP. That membership is noted in her professional details as BACP.
Sessions can be held by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Sessions are arranged via a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions to suit both parties.
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What Tracey works with
The areas below are the ones Tracey selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- 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
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approach-driven online therapy that fits your life
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationship patterns shape current reactions. Tracey uses this approach to help people notice repeating patterns that affect closeness, trust and communication. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours link together and teaches practical steps to change unhelpful cycles. It is often useful for anxiety, low mood and coping with change. Client-Centred Therapy places the person at the heart of the work, emphasising listening, empathy and your own pace for exploring issues.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Tracey will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and suggest which methods to try first. The decision is collaborative and can change as therapy progresses to match what is most helpful.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit into a work break or require less bandwidth, and chat or messaging can be useful for brief check-ins or for those who prefer writing. These options make it easier to arrange regular contact and to keep therapy working around daily life.
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