Get in Touch
I currently offer sessions in person and online (by phone or video).
If you are interested to work with me, please get in touch using the form or by email.
tinaspeed@counsellingnorthlondon.com
I will arrange a time to have an initial conversation with you, at no cost and with no pressure to commit to further sessions. There is an information sheet with Frequently Asked Questions here.
I aim to reply to all email enquiries within 5 working days. If you need to speak to someone urgently please contact your local NHS urgent mental health helpline.
You can also call Samaritans free on 116 123, text “SHOUT” to Shout Crisis Text Line at 85258 or call 0800 1111 to talk to Childline.
Counselling Resources
Increased control over sound levels can provide a new way of responding to what you need, and Loop Earplugs can form part of a useful toolkit for managing noise sensitivity.
Making ourselves heard. How do we respond to increasing access to information and the many platforms and tools to communicate what we think? How, when, where, and why do we choose to express our opinions, and what is the impact of our choices?
Whatever our reason for beginning therapy, how can we recognise when it’s time to work towards an ending? Some considerations on how to approach this decision, including the content and impact of sessions, the therapeutic relationship, wider support systems, and questions for self-reflection.
This playlist looks at hope as a musical theme. The piece explore hope as journeys and new beginnings, as sustenance and guidance, as changing relationships, and as the promise of unrealised potential.
All of us experience behaviours we find challenging in others. How to understanding our responses to others can affect our ability to manage incompatibility in relationships.
Here I share some thoughts on what One-At-A-Time Therapy (OOAT) looks like, deciding if it could fit you, how to prepare and what happen afterwards.
Here I share some thoughts on what time-limited therapy and open-ended therapy look like, what situations they tend to fit, and some possible benefits and challenges of each.
Our experiences of the pandemic will determine how we react to the lifting of recent lockdown restrictions. How re-socialising, adapting to 'a new normal', can affect how we think and feel.
Here I look at online counselling, with a focus on telephone and video sessions, to help you consider whether it might work for you. What are the benefits and challenges, what does it look and feel like and how does it differ from in-person therapy?
The terms ‘Introvert’ and ‘Extrovert’ have become popular again in recent years. These two different personality types can be useful in helping us to understand why people can behave differently. Here I look at whether the meaning of these words has become lost in translation.
Whether it’s a time to reflect on the year that’s coming to an end or to focus on what happens next, the New Year often represents change in some way. Here are some thoughts on how we might approach this.
An initial conversation, or Assessment, is a time for a therapist and client to meet to explore if they might be able to do some meaningful work together. More about this moment to ask any questions you have about the process, to experience a little of what the therapeutic relationship can feel like and to get a professional opinion on what might be useful for you.
Our contact with others can have a big effect on how we feel, and too little can leave us feeling anything from unsatisfied to abandoned. Read how being isolated can result in feelings of loneliness.
This playlist takes the idea of peacefulness as its starting point. Each piece of music says something about peacefulness as calm and quiet, as an escape, as hope for the future and as a connection with a higher being or consciousness.
We all have mental health. If mental wellbeing is a scale that balances our resilience against everything going on around us, what can we do when it begins to tip? How can we make it our second nature to look after our emotional wellbeing?