Lauren Tansel

I offer sessions in person at My Place Community Centre in Romford, online and on the phone. I have daytime and evening appointments available Tuesday to Friday.

My work is grounded in a polyvagal-informed and integrative therapeutic approach. This means I support you not only through your thoughts and emotions, but with an understanding of how your nervous system responds to stress, safety, and connection.

Many people move through life in a state of survival, feeling disconnected, overwhelmed, anxious, or shut down. These are not signs of weakness, but protective responses your nervous system has developed in response to stress, trauma, or long-held emotional patterns. In our work together, we create a space where you can begin to feel safe, seen, and supported, so healing and change can naturally unfold.

​I take an integrative approach, meaning I draw from a range of therapeutic models and tailor our work to meet your unique needs. This includes elements of humanistic, existential, psychodynamic, and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) - blending insight, emotional exploration, and practical tools to support your growth.

As a polyvagal-informed therapist, I pay close attention to how your nervous system shapes your experience of the world. Together, we’ll explore the ways in which your system may be operating from survival responses such as fight, flight, freeze, fawn, or shutdown - patterns that were once protective but may now be keeping you stuck. By bringing awareness to these responses, we can gently support your nervous system in moving toward greater regulation, connection, and resilience.​  

This work is collaborative, compassionate, and paced according to you. My intention is to meet you where you are and support you in moving toward where you want to be emotionally, mentally, and somatically.

Areas of expertise​:

General, social and panic anxiety

Hypervigilance

Emotional overwhelm

Increased sensitivity to other people’s emotions and your environment

People pleasing to the detriment of yourself

Low self-esteem and low self-worth

Struggle with self-criticism

Depression, feeling numb and hopeless

Addictions

Therapy, when approached with care and attunement, can be a deeply supportive and transformative space. I offer a warm, confidential, and non-judgmental environment where you can explore whatever challenges you’re facing, at your own pace, in your own way. In our work together, I will listen with empathy and curiosity as we explore the issues that may be impacting your emotional wellbeing, relationships, or sense of self. My aim is to support you in gaining greater insight, healing, and a stronger connection to your authentic self.

You may begin to uncover how past experiences and early conditioning continue to shape how you relate to yourself and others. Together, we can bring compassionate awareness to these patterns and explore how they may be holding you back. With this awareness, we can begin to gently shift toward more empowering ways of being, relating, and responding that feel more aligned with who you truly are. A key part of this journey may involve identifying and challenging self-limiting beliefs about yourself, others, and the world that keep you feeling stuck. I also support you in reconnecting with and befriending all parts of yourself, even the ones that may feel difficult, rejected, or misunderstood.

I don't believe that anyone is broken. Often, we find ourselves stuck in survival responses such as fight, flight, freeze, or shutdown, rooted in the nervous system's protective wiring. These are not flaws, but intelligent adaptations shaped by life experience.  

My intention is to help you feel more empowered, not by fixing you, but by helping you understand, trust, and support your system. Through this process, you can begin to experience greater resilience, self-acceptance, and the freedom to make meaningful changes in your life.​

I appreciate how contacting and finding a suitable counsellor can be difficult. This is why I offer a free 20-minute telephone consultation giving you the opportunity to tell me a little about what is going on for you and to ask any questions you may have. Also, for you to get to know how I work and to see if I am the right counsellor for you. There is no obligation to book an appointment as choosing a counsellor that you feel comfortable with is important.

If we book a first session, I will send you a therapeutic contract and assessment to complete before our first session. In the first session we will talk about what brings you to counselling and how we will work together.

I offer sessions face to face in My Place Community Centre in Romford, online and on the phone. I have daytime and evening appointments available Tuesday to Friday. 

My work is grounded in a polyvagal-informed and integrative therapeutic approach. This means I support you not only through your thoughts and emotions, but with an understanding of how your nervous system responds to stress, safety, and connection.

Many people move through life in a state of survival, feeling disconnected, overwhelmed, anxious, or shut down. These are not signs of weakness, but protective responses your nervous system has developed in response to stress, trauma, or long-held emotional patterns. In our work together, we create a space where you can begin to feel safe, seen, and supported, so healing and change can naturally unfold.

I take an integrative approach, meaning I draw from a range of therapeutic models and tailor our work to meet your unique needs. This includes elements of humanistic, existential, psychodynamic, and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) - blending insight, emotional exploration, and practical tools to support your growth.

As a polyvagal-informed therapist, I pay close attention to how your nervous system shapes your experience of the world. Together, we’ll explore the ways in which your system may be operating from survival responses such as fight, flight, freeze, fawn, or shutdown - patterns that were once protective but may now be keeping you stuck. By bringing awareness to these responses, we can gently support your nervous system in moving toward greater regulation, connection, and resilience.

This work is collaborative, compassionate, and paced according to you. My intention is to meet you where you are and support you in moving toward where you want to be emotionally, mentally, and somatically.

Areas of expertise:

General, social and panic anxiety

Hypervigilance

Emotional overwhelm

Increased sensitivity to other people’s emotions and your environment

People pleasing to the detriment of yourself

Low self-esteem and low self-worth

Struggle with self-criticism

Depression, feeling numb and hopeless

Addictions

Therapy, when approached with care and attunement, can be a deeply supportive and transformative space. I offer a warm, confidential, and non-judgmental environment where you can explore whatever challenges you’re facing, at your own pace, in your own way. In our work together, I will listen with empathy and curiosity as we explore the issues that may be impacting your emotional wellbeing, relationships, or sense of self. My aim is to support you in gaining greater insight, healing, and a stronger connection to your authentic self.

You may begin to uncover how past experiences and early conditioning continue to shape how you relate to yourself and others. Together, we can bring compassionate awareness to these patterns and explore how they may be holding you back. With this awareness, we can begin to gently shift toward more empowering ways of being, relating, and responding that feel more aligned with who you truly are. A key part of this journey may involve identifying and challenging self-limiting beliefs about yourself, others, and the world that keep you feeling stuck. I also support you in reconnecting with and befriending all parts of yourself, even the ones that may feel difficult, rejected, or misunderstood.

I don't believe that anyone is broken. Often, we find ourselves stuck in survival responses such as fight, flight, freeze, or shutdown, rooted in the nervous system's protective wiring. These are not flaws, but intelligent adaptations shaped by life experience.

My intention is to help you feel more empowered, not by fixing you, but by helping you understand, trust, and support your system. Through this process, you can begin to experience greater resilience, self-acceptance, and the freedom to make meaningful changes in your life.

I appreciate how contacting and finding a suitable counsellor can be difficult. This is why I offer a free 20-minute telephone consultation giving you the opportunity to tell me a little about what is going on for you and to ask any questions you may have. Also, for you to get to know how I work and to see if I am the right counsellor for you. There is no obligation to book an appointment as choosing a counsellor that you feel comfortable with is important.

If we book a first session, I will send you a therapeutic contract and assessment to complete before our first session. In the first session we will talk about what brings you to counselling and how we will work together.

I offer sessions face to face in My Place Community Centre in Romford, online and on the phone. I have daytime and evening appointments available Tuesday to Friday. 

My work is grounded in a polyvagal-informed and integrative therapeutic approach. This means I support you not only through your thoughts and emotions, but with an understanding of how your nervous system responds to stress, safety, and connection.

Many people move through life in a state of survival, feeling disconnected, overwhelmed, anxious, or shut down. These are not signs of weakness, but protective responses your nervous system has developed in response to stress, trauma, or long-held emotional patterns. In our work together, we create a space where you can begin to feel safe, seen, and supported, so healing and change can naturally unfold.

I take an integrative approach, meaning I draw from a range of therapeutic models and tailor our work to meet your unique needs. This includes elements of humanistic, existential, psychodynamic, and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) - blending insight, emotional exploration, and practical tools to support your growth.

As a polyvagal-informed therapist, I pay close attention to how your nervous system shapes your experience of the world. Together, we’ll explore the ways in which your system may be operating from survival responses such as fight, flight, freeze, fawn, or shutdown - patterns that were once protective but may now be keeping you stuck. By bringing awareness to these responses, we can gently support your nervous system in moving toward greater regulation, connection, and resilience.

This work is collaborative, compassionate, and paced according to you. My intention is to meet you where you are and support you in moving toward where you want to be emotionally, mentally, and somatically.

Areas of expertise:

General, social and panic anxiety

Hypervigilance

Emotional overwhelm

Increased sensitivity to other people’s emotions and your environment

People pleasing to the detriment of yourself

Low self-esteem and low self-worth

Struggle with self-criticism

Depression, feeling numb and hopeless

Addictions

Therapy, when approached with care and attunement, can be a deeply supportive and transformative space. I offer a warm, confidential, and non-judgmental environment where you can explore whatever challenges you’re facing, at your own pace, in your own way. In our work together, I will listen with empathy and curiosity as we explore the issues that may be impacting your emotional wellbeing, relationships, or sense of self. My aim is to support you in gaining greater insight, healing, and a stronger connection to your authentic self.

You may begin to uncover how past experiences and early conditioning continue to shape how you relate to yourself and others. Together, we can bring compassionate awareness to these patterns and explore how they may be holding you back. With this awareness, we can begin to gently shift toward more empowering ways of being, relating, and responding that feel more aligned with who you truly are. A key part of this journey may involve identifying and challenging self-limiting beliefs about yourself, others, and the world that keep you feeling stuck. I also support you in reconnecting with and befriending all parts of yourself, even the ones that may feel difficult, rejected, or misunderstood.

I don't believe that anyone is broken. Often, we find ourselves stuck in survival responses such as fight, flight, freeze, or shutdown, rooted in the nervous system's protective wiring. These are not flaws, but intelligent adaptations shaped by life experience.

My intention is to help you feel more empowered, not by fixing you, but by helping you understand, trust, and support your system. Through this process, you can begin to experience greater resilience, self-acceptance, and the freedom to make meaningful changes in your life.

I appreciate how contacting and finding a suitable counsellor can be difficult. This is why I offer a free 20-minute telephone consultation giving you the opportunity to tell me a little about what is going on for you and to ask any questions you may have. Also, for you to get to know how I work and to see if I am the right counsellor for you. There is no obligation to book an appointment as choosing a counsellor that you feel comfortable with is important.

If we book a first session, I will send you a therapeutic contract and assessment to complete before our first session. In the first session we will talk about what brings you to counselling and how we will work together.

I offer sessions in person at My Place Community Centre in Romford, online and on the phone. I have daytime and evening appointments available Tuesday to Friday. 

My work is grounded in a polyvagal-informed and integrative therapeutic approach. This means I support you not only through your thoughts and emotions, but with an understanding of how your nervous system responds to stress, safety, and connection.

Many people move through life in a state of survival, feeling disconnected, overwhelmed, anxious, or shut down. These are not signs of weakness, but protective responses your nervous system has developed in response to stress, trauma, or long-held emotional patterns. In our work together, we create a space where you can begin to feel safe, seen, and supported, so healing and change can naturally unfold.

I take an integrative approach, meaning I draw from a range of therapeutic models and tailor our work to meet your unique needs. This includes elements of humanistic, existential, psychodynamic, and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) - blending insight, emotional exploration, and practical tools to support your growth.

As a polyvagal-informed therapist, I pay close attention to how your nervous system shapes your experience of the world. Together, we’ll explore the ways in which your system may be operating from survival responses such as fight, flight, freeze, fawn, or shutdown - patterns that were once protective but may now be keeping you stuck. By bringing awareness to these responses, we can gently support your nervous system in moving toward greater regulation, connection, and resilience.

This work is collaborative, compassionate, and paced according to you. My intention is to meet you where you are and support you in moving toward where you want to be emotionally, mentally, and somatically.

Areas of expertise:

General, social and panic anxiety

Hypervigilance

Emotional overwhelm

Increased sensitivity to other people’s emotions and your environment

People pleasing to the detriment of yourself

Low self-esteem and low self-worth

Struggle with self-criticism

Depression, feeling numb and hopeless

Addictions

Therapy, when approached with care and attunement, can be a deeply supportive and transformative space. I offer a warm, confidential, and non-judgmental environment where you can explore whatever challenges you’re facing, at your own pace, in your own way. In our work together, I will listen with empathy and curiosity as we explore the issues that may be impacting your emotional wellbeing, relationships, or sense of self. My aim is to support you in gaining greater insight, healing, and a stronger connection to your authentic self.

You may begin to uncover how past experiences and early conditioning continue to shape how you relate to yourself and others. Together, we can bring compassionate awareness to these patterns and explore how they may be holding you back. With this awareness, we can begin to gently shift toward more empowering ways of being, relating, and responding that feel more aligned with who you truly are. A key part of this journey may involve identifying and challenging self-limiting beliefs about yourself, others, and the world that keep you feeling stuck. I also support you in reconnecting with and befriending all parts of yourself, even the ones that may feel difficult, rejected, or misunderstood.

I don't believe that anyone is broken. Often, we find ourselves stuck in survival responses such as fight, flight, freeze, or shutdown, rooted in the nervous system's protective wiring. These are not flaws, but intelligent adaptations shaped by life experience.

My intention is to help you feel more empowered, not by fixing you, but by helping you understand, trust, and support your system. Through this process, you can begin to experience greater resilience, self-acceptance, and the freedom to make meaningful changes in your life.

I appreciate how contacting and finding a suitable counsellor can be difficult. This is why I offer a free 20-minute telephone consultation giving you the opportunity to tell me a little about what is going on for you and to ask any questions you may have. Also, for you to get to know how I work and to see if I am the right counsellor for you. There is no obligation to book an appointment as choosing a counsellor that you feel comfortable with is important.

If we book a first session, I will send you a therapeutic contract and assessment to complete before our first session. In the first session we will talk about what brings you to counselling and how we will work together.

I offer sessions in person at My Place Community Centre in Romford, online and on the phone. I have daytime and evening appointments available Tuesday to Friday. 

My work is grounded in a polyvagal-informed and integrative therapeutic approach. This means I support you not only through your thoughts and emotions, but with an understanding of how your nervous system responds to stress, safety, and connection.

Many people move through life in a state of survival, feeling disconnected, overwhelmed, anxious, or shut down. These are not signs of weakness, but protective responses your nervous system has developed in response to stress, trauma, or long-held emotional patterns. In our work together, we create a space where you can begin to feel safe, seen, and supported, so healing and change can naturally unfold.

I take an integrative approach, meaning I draw from a range of therapeutic models and tailor our work to meet your unique needs. This includes elements of humanistic, existential, psychodynamic, and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) - blending insight, emotional exploration, and practical tools to support your growth.

As a polyvagal-informed therapist, I pay close attention to how your nervous system shapes your experience of the world. Together, we’ll explore the ways in which your system may be operating from survival responses such as fight, flight, freeze, fawn, or shutdown - patterns that were once protective but may now be keeping you stuck. By bringing awareness to these responses, we can gently support your nervous system in moving toward greater regulation, connection, and resilience.

This work is collaborative, compassionate, and paced according to you. My intention is to meet you where you are and support you in moving toward where you want to be emotionally, mentally, and somatically.

Areas of expertise:

General, social and panic anxiety

Hypervigilance

Emotional overwhelm

Increased sensitivity to other people’s emotions and your environment

People pleasing to the detriment of yourself

Low self-esteem and low self-worth

Struggle with self-criticism

Depression, feeling numb and hopeless

Addictions

Therapy, when approached with care and attunement, can be a deeply supportive and transformative space. I offer a warm, confidential, and non-judgmental environment where you can explore whatever challenges you’re facing, at your own pace, in your own way. In our work together, I will listen with empathy and curiosity as we explore the issues that may be impacting your emotional wellbeing, relationships, or sense of self. My aim is to support you in gaining greater insight, healing, and a stronger connection to your authentic self.

You may begin to uncover how past experiences and early conditioning continue to shape how you relate to yourself and others. Together, we can bring compassionate awareness to these patterns and explore how they may be holding you back. With this awareness, we can begin to gently shift toward more empowering ways of being, relating, and responding that feel more aligned with who you truly are. A key part of this journey may involve identifying and challenging self-limiting beliefs about yourself, others, and the world that keep you feeling stuck. I also support you in reconnecting with and befriending all parts of yourself, even the ones that may feel difficult, rejected, or misunderstood.

I don't believe that anyone is broken. Often, we find ourselves stuck in survival responses such as fight, flight, freeze, or shutdown, rooted in the nervous system's protective wiring. These are not flaws, but intelligent adaptations shaped by life experience.

My intention is to help you feel more empowered, not by fixing you, but by helping you understand, trust, and support your system. Through this process, you can begin to experience greater resilience, self-acceptance, and the freedom to make meaningful changes in your life.

I appreciate how contacting and finding a suitable counsellor can be difficult. This is why I offer a free 20-minute telephone consultation giving you the opportunity to tell me a little about what is going on for you and to ask any questions you may have. Also, for you to get to know how I work and to see if I am the right counsellor for you. There is no obligation to book an appointment as choosing a counsellor that you feel comfortable with is important.

If we book a first session, I will send you a therapeutic contract and assessment to complete before our first session. In the first session we will talk about what brings you to counselling and how we will work together.

I offer sessions in person at My Place Community Centre in Romford, online and on the phone. I have daytime and evening appointments available Tuesday to Friday. 

My work is grounded in a polyvagal-informed and integrative therapeutic approach. This means I support you not only through your thoughts and emotions, but with an understanding of how your nervous system responds to stress, safety, and connection.

Many people move through life in a state of survival, feeling disconnected, overwhelmed, anxious, or shut down. These are not signs of weakness, but protective responses your nervous system has developed in response to stress, trauma, or long-held emotional patterns. In our work together, we create a space where you can begin to feel safe, seen, and supported, so healing and change can naturally unfold.

I take an integrative approach, meaning I draw from a range of therapeutic models and tailor our work to meet your unique needs. This includes elements of humanistic, existential, psychodynamic, and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) - blending insight, emotional exploration, and practical tools to support your growth.

As a polyvagal-informed therapist, I pay close attention to how your nervous system shapes your experience of the world. Together, we’ll explore the ways in which your system may be operating from survival responses such as fight, flight, freeze, fawn, or shutdown - patterns that were once protective but may now be keeping you stuck. By bringing awareness to these responses, we can gently support your nervous system in moving toward greater regulation, connection, and resilience.

This work is collaborative, compassionate, and paced according to you. My intention is to meet you where you are and support you in moving toward where you want to be emotionally, mentally, and somatically.

Areas of expertise:

General, social and panic anxiety

Hypervigilance

Emotional overwhelm

Increased sensitivity to other people’s emotions and your environment

People pleasing to the detriment of yourself

Low self-esteem and low self-worth

Struggle with self-criticism

Depression, feeling numb and hopeless

Addictions

Therapy, when approached with care and attunement, can be a deeply supportive and transformative space. I offer a warm, confidential, and non-judgmental environment where you can explore whatever challenges you’re facing, at your own pace, in your own way. In our work together, I will listen with empathy and curiosity as we explore the issues that may be impacting your emotional wellbeing, relationships, or sense of self. My aim is to support you in gaining greater insight, healing, and a stronger connection to your authentic self.

You may begin to uncover how past experiences and early conditioning continue to shape how you relate to yourself and others. Together, we can bring compassionate awareness to these patterns and explore how they may be holding you back. With this awareness, we can begin to gently shift toward more empowering ways of being, relating, and responding that feel more aligned with who you truly are. A key part of this journey may involve identifying and challenging self-limiting beliefs about yourself, others, and the world that keep you feeling stuck. I also support you in reconnecting with and befriending all parts of yourself, even the ones that may feel difficult, rejected, or misunderstood.

I don't believe that anyone is broken. Often, we find ourselves stuck in survival responses such as fight, flight, freeze, or shutdown, rooted in the nervous system's protective wiring. These are not flaws, but intelligent adaptations shaped by life experience.

My intention is to help you feel more empowered, not by fixing you, but by helping you understand, trust, and support your system. Through this process, you can begin to experience greater resilience, self-acceptance, and the freedom to make meaningful changes in your life.

I appreciate how contacting and finding a suitable counsellor can be difficult. This is why I offer a free 20-minute telephone consultation giving you the opportunity to tell me a little about what is going on for you and to ask any questions you may have. Also, for you to get to know how I work and to see if I am the right counsellor for you. There is no obligation to book an appointment as choosing a counsellor that you feel comfortable with is important.

If we book a first session, I will send you a therapeutic contract and assessment to complete before our first session. In the first session we will talk about what brings you to counselling and how we will work together.