Tina Elliston

Tina Elliston is a Counsellor, Psychotherapist and Life Coach who works individually with clients to address their specific needs. She keeps client numbers low to build a strong therapeutic relationship and to focus on personalised outcomes. Tina draws on counselling skills, mindfulness, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and solution-focused therapy to help clients set their own goals and make practical plans to reach them.

She supports people to work at their own pace - in bite-sized steps with no pressure or deadlines - while checking in regularly, suggesting worksheets or articles and offering feedback to reinforce learning. These practical tasks are used to develop awareness and coping tools so clients can move forward rather than remain stuck.

Tina is warm and approachable and aims to create a safe space for people to talk. If a suitable appointment slot is not shown, she encourages prospective clients to ask for alternative days or times and will do her best to accommodate requests.

She holds additional diplomas in ADHD, Autism, Attachment Theory, Bereavement, Borderline Personality Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Couples Counselling, Relationship Psychology, Inner Child Healing, Life Coaching, Mindfulness, Narcissism, Perinatal Mental Health and Young People’s mental health. With five years of professional experience, Tina has worked extensively with women and with issues affecting women’s health, including anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, sleep difficulties, stress, body image, workplace problems, family life and relationship challenges.

Before training as a counsellor she worked in Nursing and Midwifery and has clinical experience with fertility difficulties, pregnancy, baby loss and birth trauma. She is an experienced bereavement counsellor and is currently completing the Foundation for Infant Loss Practitioner Training and Fertility Specialist Training. Her clinical background informs her understanding of how pregnancy loss or fertility struggles can affect self-image and relationships, and she offers support to improve communication and help couples reconnect.

Tina recognises the trauma that can follow baby loss or difficult births and the barriers people often face when talking to friends and family. She offers a space to explore thoughts and feelings that clients may prefer not to share with loved ones, and she emphasises that no one needs to carry that pain alone.

She also supports new parents through the challenges of early parenthood - including breastfeeding difficulties, postnatal depression, self-doubt, exhaustion and sleepless nights - and can work with fathers who feel traumatised by birth experiences. Tina provides time, space and practical ideas to process feelings and to navigate the changes in relationship dynamics that accompany becoming parents.

In addition, Tina has worked with people experiencing health anxiety and with women experiencing menopausal symptoms such as hot flushes, frustration, anger, anxiety, low confidence, brain fog and cognitive difficulties. She encourages talking about these experiences as a way to reduce isolation and to find better ways of coping. She is also available to support people facing life-limiting illness who wish to talk through worries about the future or to plan the end of life they want but who do not feel able to discuss these matters with loved ones.