Tara Massie, BACP

Tara Massie offers a person-centred approach that places the client's experience at the heart of each session. She focuses on listening and reflecting back what matters most to the individual. Tara aims to create a space where people can make sense of stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem and depression and begin to find small, practical changes that help day-to-day life.

With seven years of counselling experience, Tara draws on gentle question-and-listen work to help people address both recent and earlier trauma. She tailors each conversation to the person in front of her, paying attention to what feels most important right now. Sessions are intended to help people regain motivation and notice practical steps toward feeling better.

Tara has worked with a wide range of concerns including chronic illness and pain, cancer, caregiver stress, and ageing issues. She also supports people facing relationship and communication difficulties, control issues, guilt and shame, and those coping after natural or human-caused disasters. These are common starting points for her person-centred conversations.

She is registered with the British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists, BACP, and practises in the United Kingdom. Sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time, and costs vary depending on location and therapist availability.

Sessions are conducted in English and Tara does not take international clients. To begin, a reader is invited to select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.

How person-centred work translates to online therapy

Tara offers a person-centred way of working that focuses on the client's priorities. This approach means the therapist listens attentively, reflects what she hears and follows the pace the client sets. It suits people who want space to talk through feelings like anxiety, grief or low mood and to make sense of life changes.

Person-centred conversations are complemented by practical attention to coping and daily routines. Tara uses the same supportive stance to help people living with chronic illness, caregiving stress, pain or ageing-related concerns. The method helps people notice small steps they can try between sessions and decide what matters most going forward.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Tara will discuss options with the person and agree together what feels helpful. That collaborative planning looks at needs, goals and preferences to shape how sessions run.

The original profile does not list which online session formats are offered, so please confirm available options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit conversations into a busy week, avoid travel time and use a shorter check-in when days are tight. Registered or accredited professionals and therapists commonly use online sessions to help people keep therapy practical and reachable.