Tamara Strachan

Overview

The practice is led by Tamara Strachan, a Masters-level trained therapist and an ICF-accredited life coach. The practice integrates traditional therapeutic work with coaching techniques to support long-term psychological change, relationship growth and personal development. Tamara places emphasis on exploring how past relationships and experiences shape current difficulties and aims to help clients develop healthier coping strategies, stronger boundaries and greater self-esteem.

The practice offers a range of services including short- and longer-term psychotherapy, relationship coaching, sexual wellbeing support and psychedelic integration sessions. Sessions are delivered with an emphasis on ethical practice, confidentiality and tailoring work to the individual client’s needs.

Best for

This provider is best suited for adults seeking therapy or coaching for anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties and sexual wellbeing concerns, as well as people seeking support with psychedelic experience integration. Typical clients include those working through trauma-related material, people wanting relationship coaching or those processing diagnoses such as HSV in a confidential clinical setting.

• Clients with anxiety and low mood
• People seeking relationship coaching and interpersonal work
• Clients needing sexual wellbeing support or integration of psychedelic experiences

Approach

The practice combines psychotherapeutic interventions with coaching methods, enabling work at both emotional depth and practical, goal-focused change. Therapy focuses on understanding the links between past experiences and present difficulties, building insight, and developing new relational and coping patterns. Coaching work emphasizes goal-setting, accountability and practical planning to help clients move forward in professional and personal domains.

Treatment is collaborative and paced to the client’s needs. Sessions may include exploration of attachment and relational themes, cognitive and emotional processing, and support for integration after psychedelic experiences. Tamara uses a person-centred, trauma-informed stance and adapts methods to each client’s presentation.

Education and Training

The lead practitioner holds an MSc and is a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She is an International Coaching Federation (ICF) accredited coach and has extensive NHS clinical experience (25 years) working in sexual health, HIV services and specialist sexual assault services at major London teaching hospitals.

Support

Clients receive a confidential, ethically governed service in line with the BACP framework. The practice offers careful preparation and integration support for clients working with psychedelic experiences and maintains clear boundaries and safety procedures. Tamara emphasises a warm, non-judgemental therapeutic environment and provides practical coping strategies alongside emotional processing.

Concessions are offered for low-income clients for certain services. In situations of crisis the practice directs clients to emergency NHS services as appropriate.

Practical details

Sessions are offered in-person in South West London (Balham area) and remotely by telephone or online; both therapy and coaching are available. Typical fees listed on the site include therapy from £70 per session, coaching £150 per session, sexual wellbeing £90 per session and psychedelic integration £115 per session (10% concessions available for low-income clients). Appointments are available Monday to Friday 7am–3pm. Contact details are provided on the website for booking an initial call.

This description was generated based on information from the official website and other materials provided by the provider.