Tamsyn Spear
Compassionate integrative counsellor for everyday challenges
About Tamsyn
Tamsyn Spear is an integrative counsellor based in the United Kingdom. She uses a person-centred way of working that places the client at the heart of sessions. Her approach aims to create a calm, respectful space where people can talk honestly about what’s worrying them.
She has 11 years of experience working in counselling roles across the voluntary sector and the NHS, plus earlier therapeutic work with local council services.
Background and approach
That background includes time supporting children, young people, adults and parents or carers. She has also supervised other therapists and worked in child and adolescent mental health services. Tamsyn helps people facing stress, anxiety, low mood and anger.
She supports those dealing with relationship problems, family conflict, parenting strains, grief, trauma and addiction concerns. She also works on self‑esteem, motivation and coping with life changes. Her practice incorporates person-centred principles alongside Transactional Analysis and Gestalt ideas.
She also draws on mindfulness, systemic family practice, attachment theory, creative techniques and brief cognitive behavioural approaches when these suit a person’s goals. Tamsyn works collaboratively to choose the methods that fit each person. She focuses on making counselling straightforward and practical.
Sessions aim to clarify what change looks like and to build steps toward those goals. Many clients find that talking things through helps them feel less stuck and more able to make the next move. Tamsyn keeps the relationship central and avoids judgment.
She supports people to explore difficult experiences and to discover new ways of coping and relating to others.
What Tamsyn works with
Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Many of Tamsyn's methods aim to help people make practical changes in day-to-day life. Person-centred work focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship so people can speak openly and decide what change they want. Transactional Analysis looks at patterns in thinking and relating to help identify unhelpful habits and to practise different responses. Brief cognitive behavioural approaches offer short, focused ways to work on thoughts and behaviours that feed anxiety or low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Tamsyn will work collaboratively to choose techniques that fit a person’s needs, goals and preferences. Together they will check what helps and adjust the plan over time so sessions stay relevant and useful.
Online therapy with Tamsyn is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that helps build connection. Phone sessions can be simpler if bandwidth is limited or if someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging suit shorter check-ins or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and other commitments, while keeping continuity of care with registered or accredited professionals.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 11 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
