Tahira Hussain

Tahira Hussain is a BACP counsellor with 15 years of post-qualification experience. She supports people coping with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, addictions, relationship problems, grief, and separation. She speaks English, Punjabi and Urdu and works from the United Kingdom.

Her practice focuses on listening first. She offers a calm, collaborative space where people can talk about what is worrying them. She helps clients identify practical steps to manage symptoms, cope with life changes and build stronger day-to-day routines.

Tahira draws on a mix of approaches, including Client-Centred Therapy, cognitive behavioural tools and psychodynamic ideas. She adapts conversations and techniques to match each person’s needs and goals. Sessions aim to make sense of difficult experiences and to try useful ways of thinking and behaving.

She has worked across private practice, digital platforms and specialist domestic abuse organisations. This background means she is familiar with risk assessment, safeguarding and outcome-focused work. Her style is grounded and straightforward, helping people find clarity when things feel overwhelming.

When separation or divorce is part of the picture she helps people manage the practical and emotional fallout. That might include coping with loss, rebuilding routines, managing parenting strain or handling difficult emotions. Her aim is to support realistic steps towards recovery and clearer day-to-day functioning.

How Tahira’s approaches translate to online counselling

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person’s experience. Sessions give time for people to talk, be heard and clarify their own priorities, which can help with relationship stress, grief and self-esteem issues. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, uses practical exercises and small experiments to change thinking and behaviour patterns. It can be useful for anxiety, panic, phobias, low mood and managing stress. Psychodynamic ideas look at patterns from past experiences and relationships to make sense of recurring difficulties and emotional reactions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and decide together what feels most helpful based on needs, goals and preferences. This collaborative process may combine elements from different approaches as therapy progresses.

If you are considering online sessions, please confirm the current session options before booking. Online work can help fit counselling into a busy life by reducing travel and allowing appointments during breaks or from different locations. It also makes regular check-ins simpler when routines are disrupted. Registered or accredited professionals, including therapists with experience across digital platforms, can adapt tools and exercises so they work well in an online setting.