Tara Winter

I currently have some morning and afternoon availability during the week.

Please contact me by email or message and I will aim to get back to you within 3 days.

Counselling with me can be a way to cut through all the noise, allowing you to work out what matters to you. 

If you're feeling stuck, overwhelmed or don't know where to start, that's okay. You don't have to have all the answers, it might just be helpful to pin down some of those thoughts and feelings swirling around inside. The phrase, "can't see the wood for the trees" springs to mind. Well, this is a way take some steps back from the trees that seem to be blocking your view, work out why they've been obstructing your ability to see the wood, so you can then decide how you can make it a more manageable and peaceful place to be.

It might be that you don't usually have someone you can confide in, perhaps you are the one that is leaned on in your networks. Or maybe you need to talk things through with someone who knows nothing about the other people or connections in your life, and can focus purely on what you're experiencing. I am committed to making you feel heard and seen.

My clients describe sessions as relaxed and welcoming, with plenty of space for all your feelings whether that's frustration, sadness, inertia, laughter, fear or any of the other many emotions you might have.

As well as my private practice, I work as a counsellor in a hospice, so much of my experience is within the world of bereavement, grief and loss.  Regular themes and issues I have worked with are abandonment, isolation, identity shifts,  anger, relationships both romantic and platonic, low self-esteem and feeling lost.  I have lived experience of adoption, racism and neurodivergence as well as therapeutic parenting, and teaching.

I work online via Teams (video call), or by telephone.

Sessions are 50 minutes long and run on a weekly basis.

After you first contact me, I'll arrange a 15-20 minute phone or video call to answer questions you might have about how counselling with me might look, and you can get a sense of if I am the right therapist for you. I will also ask a few questions to make sure that I am a suitable counsellor for you. If I think that a different style or source of support would be more appropriate, I'll talk with you about it and suggest suitable counsellors/services.

After the introductory call, and you decide to go ahead with sessions, I'll send you across a counselling agreement to read through, and a client information form to fill in and send back to me.

You do not have to make a decision in the introductory call, you can take your time to think it over.

Your first session will involve going through the counselling agreement and answering any questions you have about it, talking about what brings you to therapy and discussing together what you'd like to get out of your counselling sessions. In the first session, please expect that there will be more assessment style questions and forms so that we can gauge where you are at in that moment in time and I can get the clearest picture I can of what your expectations and goals are.