Tanya Perrin

Tanya Perrin is an integrative counsellor who draws on several approaches to meet each person’s needs. She works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, anger and self-esteem concerns, and supports people dealing with intimacy-related issues, sleeping problems and ADHD. Tanya holds BACP registration and practises in the United Kingdom. Her practice combines client-centred listening with practical strategies from cognitive behavioural therapy. She also uses mindfulness and elements of dialectical behaviour therapy to help with emotional regulation and grounding. Sessions focus on what matters to the person in front of her and on small, realistic steps that can fit into daily life. Tanya has around 10 years of professional experience. That includes counselling people affected by cancer and their families, and work in palliative care, loss and bereavement through Macmillan Cancer Support training. She has also supported psychiatric patients with complex needs and worked with children and young adults in school settings. In a session she aims to offer respect, sensitivity and compassion. Conversations are tailored to each person, and plans change as needs do. Practical skills such as breathing, grounding and mindfulness are used alongside talking to help manage strong feelings. People who come for counselling often want clearer ways to cope with ongoing stress, grief or patterns that repeat in relationships. Tanya helps people identify what they can change now and builds plans to make those changes manageable.

How these approaches translate to online counselling

Tanya uses client-centred work and cognitive behavioural techniques to create practical, problem-focused sessions. Client-centred work means listening carefully and shaping sessions around what matters most to the person, while cognitive behavioural work helps identify patterns of thinking and behaviour and introduces exercises to change them. She also draws on dialectical behaviour therapy for emotional regulation and distress tolerance. DBT-style skills can be taught in short, repeatable exercises that people can practise between sessions to manage intense feelings or cravings. Finding the right approach is part of the therapy journey. Tanya will work together with each person to decide which methods suit their goals and situation. That choice is reviewed as progress is made and priorities change. Please confirm the available session formats before booking, as the biography does not list specific online or face-to-face options. Online counselling can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and avoid travel time. It also supports using mindfulness and grounding exercises between meetings so skills become part of daily life.