Tanika Mancer, BACP

Tanika Mancer is a BACP counsellor with seven years of experience supporting people through difficult moments. She welcomes those who feel overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure how to cope. Tanika aims to make first steps feel more manageable and to help people find steadier ground.

She focuses on stress, anxiety and low mood, and also helps with work-related pressure and rebuilding confidence after burnout. Other areas she supports include relationship concerns, grief, trauma, addiction and challenges with sleep or eating. She also works with people facing life transitions and those trying to manage ADHD or compassion fatigue.

Tanika uses a warm, person-centred style. Sessions are collaborative and non-judgemental. She listens first, then helps clients make sense of their thoughts and feelings in ways that feel practical.

Her sessions often combine clear, goal-focused steps with reflective conversations. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy techniques and solution-focused ideas may be used to address unhelpful thinking and build small, achievable changes. Narrative and mindfulness approaches are used where they help people reframe difficult stories or learn calmer ways of responding.

People who prefer a steady, supportive guide tend to work well with her. She adapts the pace to each person’s needs and concentrates on what matters most in their life. If someone wants both coaching and therapeutic support, Tanika blends those aims to help them move forward.

Approaches you can access online

Tanika often draws on Client-Centred Therapy to build a trusting, non-judgemental relationship. This approach focuses on listening, making space for feelings, and helping people find their own solutions. It suits issues where feeling heard and understood is a priority.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, is used to identify unhelpful thinking and to try practical experiments that change thoughts and behaviour. CBT can help with anxiety, low mood, sleep problems and managing stress at work.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Tanika will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, then try approaches that match those needs. She treats the choice as a collaboration and will adjust methods if something isn’t helping.

Online sessions can be held by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different situations. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversations, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can be used for shorter check-ins or people who prefer not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and daily commitments while keeping the focus on progress and accessibility.