(Taz) Tuba Altintas-Gemmell is a licensed counsellor and therapist practising in the United Kingdom with 8 years of experience. She supports people experiencing depression, stress and anxiety, relationship and family difficulties, workplace issues and conflict, trauma and abuse, and coping with grief and loss.

She is also a qualified Life Coach and can work alongside clients to set realistic, manageable goals and to build sustainable steps toward those objectives.

Her additional training and experience cover self-harm, addictions and substance misuse, transactional analysis, art and sand therapy, play therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), emotional freedom techniques (EFT), psychoanalytic approaches, and relationship counselling. She is bilingual, speaking English and Turkish.

She is described as warm and empathic, with a deep-rooted care for people’s mental health and well-being. She believes in treating everyone with respect, kindness, sensitivity and compassion, and works in a person-centred way that tailors conversations and treatment plans to each individual’s needs and preferences.

She recognises that taking the first step into therapy can take courage and is proud of anyone who begins this work. She aims to accompany clients through their journey and to adapt her approach to their unique circumstances.