Tina Cooney, BACP

Tina Cooney is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who focuses on stress, anxiety, family concerns, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, and anger. She holds BACP registration, and brings five years of professional experience. Tina aims to make first steps feel manageable and understandable for people who are anxious about reaching out.

Her style is integrative, drawing on a mix of cognitive behavioural ideas, mindfulness practice, and narrative ways of making sense of experience. She also uses attachment-informed perspectives to look at how important relationships shape feelings and reactions. Sessions often include practical exercises, grounding strategies, and simple reflective tasks to try between meetings.

Tina describes herself as trauma informed and has studied trauma rewind techniques and mindfulness; she also has a diploma in mindfulness. She prefers short, clear conversations that help a person notice what matters and then take small steps toward change. Where helpful, she will introduce meditation, breathing work, and thought-challenging exercises.

The usual starting point is to agree what a person wants to work on and to set small, achievable goals. Tina encourages people to be curious about patterns such as avoidance, control issues, or codependency and to try new ways of responding. She supports parents dealing with the strain of raising children and people coping with separation, adoption or attachment difficulties.

Tina works remotely and offers online video, phone and message options through the platform. Before booking, people should confirm the current session arrangements and scheduling details.

How Tina uses therapeutic approaches online

Tina often draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in her online work. ACT focuses on noticing what matters, accepting difficult thoughts and choosing actions that match personal values; it can help with anxiety, emptiness and life-stage questions. CBT looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours link together and uses straightforward exercises to test unhelpful beliefs and build new routines.

She also uses attachment-informed ideas to explore how past relationships shape current reactions. This approach helps when patterns of avoidance, dependent behaviour or communication problems keep repeating. Together the client and counsellor decide which methods suit the person and situation, and they adjust the plan as work progresses in a collaborative way.

Practical benefits of online therapy include fitting sessions into a busy week and reducing travel time. Online video can allow face-to-face interaction when that helps, while phone sessions can be shorter and easier to fit into a work break. Tina's profile lists video, phone and message options, but people should confirm the exact session formats and scheduling details before booking so they know what to expect.