Tamsin Palmer

I work during the day 9.30-6.00

I work face to face in my consulting room.

 Â£60 per session

lower fee for students 

I am an experienced highly qualified  Counsellor and Psychotherapist.

I have been practising privately for 23 years with adults from 18 to 80 years old.

In the past,  before setting up privately, I worked in a GP Surgery and also   in University Student Counselling Services -

My background:

Before training as a Counsellor (Cambridge University) and then as a Psychotherapist (The Guild of Psychotherapists London) I held a full-time University Lectureship  in English Literature at Dublin University where I loved working with students who enjoyed reading and thinking about how fictional characters experienced their lives .

Originally, in my late teens, I went to Drama College (at The Guildhall School in London) and qualified as a drama teacher but decided not to teach drama but to learn more about drama and literature at University.

And so I went on  to University.

As a University student I obtained a first class degree in French and English Literature  in Dublin and a post graduate degree on the novels of George Eliot from Cambridge University. 

My interest in character and emotions in fiction then led me to train as a psychotherapist and counsellor in order to work with real people (rather than fictional ones) experiencing emotional difficulties in their lives.

For the past 23 years I have very much enjoyed working with a wide range of people helping them to deal with sometimes difficult feelings and experiences or just providing an uninvolved responsive and empathic ear in a supportive confidential relationship.

How I work

I really like people and I aim to quickly establish a relaxed, informal and friendly relationship so that we can begin to look at what may be difficult and painful issues easily and in confidence, with a feeling of safety, respect and confidence. 

I offer short term work - up to 12 sessions 

Longer if the issues require more time.

This can be discussed when we meet.

Please see above about my experience and practice and how I work.

I offer short term- counselling 6-12 sessions (more if necessary)

I also offer supervision for therapists and trainees.

In the first session we will look at what brings you and have a good confidential supportive talk about all the issues involved.

We will then consider what might help you in our work together and discuss what practical arrangements might suit you best.

This is a Supervision listing 

I listen and we discuss the case you bring and I offer any comments i think might be helpful .

See below for my therapy approach

I have been practicing for the past 23 years

I work with adults with whatever issue they want to discuss.

In supervision I work with trained practitioners and trainees

In my therapeutic work over the years I have developed the way I work so that although I trained as a psychodynamic and psychoanalytic therapist I now work in a much more open way using all my experience and development creatively to help each individual as much as I can.

I am flexible empathic and sensitive to the individual needs of those I see in my consulting room

In supervision I listen to the case the counsellor or therapist or trainee brings and then we start discussing the case in detail focusing on the issues the therapist/counsellor  wishes to discus.

In my therapeutic work I have developed a flexible imaginative empathic way of responding to the unique needs of those who come to see me for their personal development and therapeutic help