(Taz) Tuba Altintas-Gemmell, BACP

(Taz) Tuba Altintas-Gemmell works as a counsellor in the United Kingdom and brings eight years of practical experience to her practice. She holds BACP accreditation, and she speaks both English and Turkish. Tuba offers direct, steady support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression and grief.

She helps people who are struggling with relationships, intimacy questions and family tensions. She also supports those coping with trauma, abuse, addictions and compassion fatigue. Clients can expect help with everyday pressures like sleep, eating, parenting and career concerns as well as more complex difficulties such as bipolar symptoms, ADHD and chronic illness challenges.

Tuba draws on several approaches to shape her work. She uses attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships influence current ones. She offers client-centred care so that conversations follow each person’s priorities. Cognitive behavioural techniques are brought in to address thoughts and behaviours that create distress.

Her style is warm and empathic. She aims to listen without judgement and to tailor plans to each person’s needs. She can also combine coaching methods when clients want practical goal-setting alongside therapy.

Sessions are available in English and Turkish, and Tuba accepts international clients. Work is offered online by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging. To begin, users complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to the therapist’s availability.

How her approaches fit with online therapy

Attachment-based work focuses on the patterns people form in close relationships and how those patterns affect feelings and behaviour today. Online sessions let clients talk through relationship history and current struggles, and the therapist helps notice how past attachments show up now.

Client-centred therapy puts the person’s experience at the centre of sessions. The counsellor follows the client’s lead, reflects what is said and helps people find their own solutions. This approach suits people who want a respectful, paced conversation about what matters most to them.

Cognitive behavioural work looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and offers practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. Online formats work well for this because exercises and homework can be shared and reviewed between sessions.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Tuba will discuss options with each person and decide together which methods match the client’s goals and preferences. This collaborative process can be revisited as therapy progresses.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls give a face-to-face feel for deeper conversations, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat suits shorter check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and everyday life while keeping the focus on steady progress with chosen methods.