Muriel Tafts

Muriel Tafts is a counsellor with a Foundation Degree in Integrated Counselling and four years of post-qualification experience. She holds BACP registration and works from the United Kingdom. Her background includes a mix of client-centred, cognitive behavioural, and psychodynamic approaches. Muriel focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, career matters, and coping with life changes.

She aims to create a calm, non-judgemental space where people can talk about difficult feelings. Sessions encourage curiosity about patterns of thinking, feeling and behaviour. Muriel makes straightforward suggestions and often asks people to try practical steps between sessions.

Her work also attends to issues such as abandonment, attachment struggles, communication problems, guilt and shame, isolation and life purpose. She supports people dealing with midlife transitions, money worries, workplace strain and matters around sexuality and self-love. Women's issues are listed among her focus areas.

Muriel explains psychological concepts plainly and sets shared goals within the first three sessions. Progress is reviewed every four weeks so people can see what is changing and what needs adjusting. She describes therapy as a collaborative process where clients try things out and reflect on what helps.

Alongside clinical practice, Muriel has completed additional training covering the neuroscience of ADHD, autism spectrum conditions, dementia, addiction, depression and psychosis. She is currently studying for an MSc in Workplace Health and Wellbeing to extend her knowledge of work-related stress and organisational wellbeing.

How therapeutic approaches work in online counselling

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening without judgment and helping people feel heard. It supports people who need a space to make sense of emotions and to find their own solutions.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It is practical and often involves trying specific techniques between sessions to reduce worry or change unhelpful habits.

Psychodynamic Therapy explores patterns from past relationships and early experiences that shape current feelings and reactions. It can help people understand deeper causes of repeated difficulties and make lasting change.

Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to match methods to their needs, goals and preferences. That may mean combining elements from different approaches and adjusting over time.

The practical benefits of online therapy include fitting sessions around work and family commitments and reducing travel time. Confirm the exact session options with the service before booking, as the biography does not list formats. Many people find online work helps them keep continuity of support and makes it easier to add short check-ins or to try techniques between sessions.