Counsellor profile
Tamzin Brain, NCPS
Counsellor - Anxiety and stress
See online counselling options- ACT
- CBT
- Attachment work
About Tamzin
Tamzin Brain is a counsellor registered with NCPS and has 14 years of practice in the United Kingdom. She works with stress, anxiety, grief, self esteem, depression, coping with life changes, trauma and abuse, sleeping difficulties, parenting concerns, anger and career issues among other areas.
Tamzin describes a person-centred, eclectic style. She listens to how people describe their experience and uses a mix of approaches to help them talk things through. Sessions focus on practical coping, changing unhelpful patterns, and developing clearer ways to manage difficult feelings.
Her background includes work with attachment-related difficulties and approaches that support thinking and behaviour change. She draws on methods such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to offer different ways of responding to stress and low mood.
People who choose Tamzin often want help with how they relate to others, feelings of abandonment or attachment pain, or ongoing worries that affect day-to-day life. She also works with body image, chronic pain and caregiver stress where these affect a person’s wellbeing.
Sessions aim to help people identify small, practical steps they can use between meetings. Tamzin also offers mindfulness-based practices and breath work to support calmer thinking and better sleep. To book, readers should follow the site booking steps and complete the short matching questionnaire before arranging a first session.
How Tamzin uses therapeutic approaches in online counselling
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It helps when values and actions feel out of step and when someone wants to make small changes despite anxiety or low mood.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions link together. It offers practical exercises and short tasks to break cycles of worry, improve sleep and reduce unhelpful behaviours.
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships. It can help people who struggle with abandonment fears, trust issues or repeating relationship difficulties to understand long-standing reaction patterns.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Tamzin will discuss options with each person and agree together which methods to try based on goals and practical needs. This is a collaborative process and can change as therapy progresses.
The practical benefits of online counselling include fitting sessions around work or family commitments and reducing travel time. The site booking process asks you to complete a short matching questionnaire before arranging a first session; please confirm the exact session formats available when you book. Online sessions can make it easier to include short check-ins, use written exercises between meetings and continue work when life is busy.
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Experience
14+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she help with most often?
She works with stress, anxiety, grief, low self esteem, depression, trauma and life changes plus related issues such as sleep problems, parenting strain and career concerns.
What style of counselling does she use?
She uses a person-centred, eclectic approach. That means she listens to the client’s view and draws on different methods to suit the problem.
How much experience does she have?
She has 14 years of experience working in counselling and related therapies in the UK.
What credential does she hold and where is she based?
She is registered with NCPS and practises in the United Kingdom.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the UK work with her?
She is not currently accepting international clients.
How are sessions paid for and what does it cost?
Costs vary with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I start a first session?
Select the See online counselling options button on this site, complete the short matching questionnaire, and then schedule a first session.
Details come from information the counsellor supplied to BetterHelp. A membership or registration can be checked on the professional body's own register.
Online counselling is not emergency care. In an emergency call 999, or see the help numbers.