Tamsyn Spear

Tamsyn Spear is an integrative counsellor based in the United Kingdom with 11 years of professional experience. She has worked as a counsellor, a therapy supervisor and as a child and adolescent mental health worker within both the voluntary sector and the NHS. She also has earlier experience supporting adults, families, children and young people through work with the local council.

Her practice aims to offer a respectful, inclusive and safe space where people can begin to feel comfortable sharing what they want support with, and where they can be empowered to believe change is possible. She works in collaboration with each person, supporting them to work toward the changes they themselves identify as important.

Tamsyn has experience working with individuals across the lifespan, including children, young people and adults, and she also provides therapeutic support to parents and carers dealing with the challenges of parenting and caring.

She supports people with stress and anxiety, low mood, relationship difficulties, family conflict, processing and moving forward from difficult life experiences, and in developing motivation, self-esteem and confidence. Her aim is to create an open, non-judgemental environment where thoughts and feelings can be shared without fear of criticism.

Recognising that it can take courage to access counselling, she seeks to help clients explore how they want to make changes, what those changes might look like, and to support them through the process. She draws on the experiences of many who have engaged in counselling to inform a compassionate, practical approach to change.

Her therapeutic approach is integrative with a foundation in Person-Centred counselling, and additional training in Transactional Analysis and Gestalt. She also uses mindfulness techniques, systemic family practice, attachment theory, creative therapies and brief Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, selecting approaches collaboratively according to the client’s needs.