(Taz) Tuba Altintas-Gemmell
Experienced BACP counsellor offering tailored support
About (Taz)
(Taz) Tuba Altintas-Gemmell is a counsellor working in the United Kingdom with eight years of experience. She holds BACP accreditation, and speaks English and Turkish. Tuba aims to make the first step in therapy feel manageable and respectful for anyone who reaches out.
She takes a person-centred approach and focuses on what matters to each individual. Sessions cover common concerns such as anxiety, depression, stress and grief. She also supports people with relationship and intimacy-related issues, addictions, coping with life changes, and workplace conflict.
Background and approach
Tuba uses a blend of practical methods to help people change unhelpful thinking and patterns. These include cognitive approaches that look at thoughts and behaviours, and emotion-focused work that helps people understand and manage strong feelings. Attachment-based ideas guide how she looks at connection and relating with others.
Her work also includes support around parenting strains, sleep and eating problems, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and long-term health challenges. She has additional focus areas such as body image, communication problems, blended family issues, and alternative sexual cultures. Tuba adapts the way she works to suit each person rather than following a fixed script.
Therapy can involve short-term goal work or longer conversations about recurring patterns. She can also offer life-coaching style sessions to help set and reach practical goals. Tuba invites people to take the next step at their own pace and aims to build a caring space for change.
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches for online support
Attachment-based work looks at how early bonds shape present relationships and emotional reactions; it can help people understand patterns in closeness, trust and separation. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person without judgement, helping them find their own pace and direction in healing. Cognitive behavioural therapy or CBT addresses unhelpful thoughts and routines with practical exercises to reduce anxiety, low mood and unhelpful habits.Choosing the right mix of methods is part of the work together. The counsellor will talk through goals and preferences, and then try approaches that fit each person's needs. This is a collaborative process and adjustments can be made as therapy proceeds.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit around busy schedules and require less bandwidth, chat and messaging suit quick check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to keep regular contact and build steady progress over time.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| 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
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Turkish
