The Therapy Room

The Therapy Room BodyMind therapy coming soon to Didcot.
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Somatic practitioner, bodyworker and Psychotherapist ~ Healing space to support & inspire, ease pain & chronic conditions ~ Nervous System Regulation ~ increasing resilience, confidence & wellness I create a healing space for clients with pain or anxiety and chronic health conditions to feel supported and inspired to make positive changes in their lives.

17/02/2026

We live in a highly competitive and ‘never enough’ culture. Overwhelm and burnout is a time to say ‘enough’. It’s a time for less rather than more and giving yourself permission to pause, slow everything down and take the pressure off.
Learn ways to practice allowing your nervous system to rest and restore. You will recover far more quickly than pushing yourself hard when rest is what you are craving.
If you have any questions, head to the DMs
Unfinished) Cold water therapy can build resilience but only
When it’s introduced at the right time,
in the right dose,
and for the right reasons.
Burnout recovery isn’t about numbing to become tougher.
It’s about no longer needing to.
Begin by finding ways to be grounded, and increase your confidence and energy levels.

Pause what leaves you overwhelmed, including thermal challenge probably
Start by meeting your nervous system where it is and finding ways to widen your resilience first

16/02/2026

These are linked to ‘life positions’, the beliefs that shape our relationships, conflict, and self-talk. Learning to recognise what they feel like and how they activate anxiety, overwhelm and burn through energy levels can be a game changer.

Join my next program: Explore Body-based noticing and self-soothing - a simple form of meditation for the Nervous System.

Wednesday 23 Feb - 18th March 7:30-8 pm
Sign up now - DM me or find out more via Life Scripts in my bio

15/02/2026

This very grainy photo was taken of me a long time ago at art school.
I trained as a theatre costume maker, which was always my big plan.

I did go on to work in theatre, but while the work was creative and dynamic, it was also incredibly challenging for me. I’m introverted by nature, and anxiety shaped far more of my experience than I realised back then. What I thought was a personal failing turned out to be something much more common and understandable.

I later retrained as a therapist and went on to become self-employed, a mum, and then a mum navigating self-employment and home education. Along the way, I learned a great deal about anxiety, people-pleasing, boundaries, and communication - first in myself, and then in the clients I supported.

As my confidence grew, so did my practice… until I hit a serious burnout. It was frightening and disorienting, forcing me to take a long, honest look at what had happened and why. I made significant changes, not just to how I worked, but to how I related to my body, my limits, and my nervous system.

That was ten years ago.

Today, I work mainly with people who are living with chronic pain, fatigue, anxiety, and recurring burnout - often while caring for others, parenting, or trying to hold together a career. Many are highly capable, deeply caring people who have learned to push through for far too long.

What I’ve learned is that focusing only on structural or surface-level issues can bring temporary relief, but rarely lasting change. My work focuses on understanding why those issues developed in the first place, and what’s needed at a deeper level for recovery to be possible.

I’m now a psychotherapist, and one of only a small number of practitioners qualified to integrate psychotherapy with bodywork. Bodywork has been part of my practice for 26 years and is available as a standalone treatment, but for many clients, the combination is where real change begins. If any of this resonates, you’re very much not alone.

This space is where I share what I’ve learned. If you have any questions, head to the DMs

13/02/2026

These short programs blend mental health practices and the grounded knowledge of self-soothing bodywork, combined with movement, to show you how to widen your Window of Tolerance and return to balance.

Join me:
For pain relief.
Chronic health conditions.
Burnout, anxiety and stress.

Learn practical, everyday tools, self-awareness, and understand how to read and navigate your Nervous System.

I’m a qualified psychotherapist and with 26 years of experience as a bodyworker - my work integrates talk therapy with somatic and body-based approaches.

This is a simple 4-week program on Zoom.
You will see me, but you won’t see each other on the screen.
These sessions will be recorded on Zoom for those who can’t attend live.
Questions? See you in the DMs

12/02/2026

I’m a massage therapist…and a psychotherapist. This means what I offer in my clinic is pretty unique…in fact, I’m one of only 7 therapists in the world trained as a Psychotactile Psychotherapist. This integrative form of therapy combines my experience to support clients with overwhelm, anxiety, and chronic health pain and conditions.
This space is where I share what I’ve learned.

If you have any questions, head to the DMs.

11/02/2026

I hear this often from clients.

There are many reasons people talk themselves out of treatment.

We worry it’s another waste of time, energy and money.
We fear that we will end up feeling worse, or that we might be unfixable.
Or we might have had a previous negative experience.

No matter if you are booking body work-based treatments or psychotherapy, my role is to meet you where you are - nerves and all.

We discuss what you want to achieve - we can even meet online to chat before you decide to book.

Questions? See you in the DMs

10/02/2026

Therapists don’t fix chronic pain or anxiety — not because the work isn’t powerful, but because healing doesn’t happen to you.

It happens with support, over time, through nervous-system-friendly choices inside and outside the therapy room.

It happens outside your session time - boundaries, prioritising rest, self-awareness, and staying with the process even when it’s slow, uncomfortable, or life simply gets in the way.

I’m here to support you, but you do the rest…so own every bit of your hard-earned progress!

This space is where I share what I’ve learned - and I’m so glad you’re here. If you have any questions, head to the DMs.

09/02/2026

This happens on treatment tables, occasionally, when the stars align…Or regularly in a safe environment with a therapist trained not just to relax you, but to guide your Nervous System to the state of rest and recovery.

I create a safe environment from your very first session. We start with an introduction and a check-in - nothing intense. We move slowly and only work with what feels manageable on the day.

Therapeutic touch is always optional, and you can change your mind at any point.

I’m a Psychotactile Psychotherapist, combining trauma-informed touch for nervous system regulation and support for anxiety, chronic pain and burnout.

Questions? See you in the DMs

08/02/2026

I’m Tara, I’m a massage therapist…and a psychotherapist. This means what I offer in my clinic is pretty unique…in fact, I’m one of only 7 therapists in the world trained as a Psychotactile Psychotherapist.

This integrative form of therapy combines my experience to support clients with overwhelm, anxiety, and chronic health pain and conditions.

This space is where I share what I’ve learned — and I’m so glad you’re here.

Questions? See you in the DMs

07/02/2026

The three Parts, or ‘voices’ (Parent, Adult, Child) describe what we believe, feel and behave in the moment.
Life scripts describe the story the nervous system learned to live by.

Life positions describe how we relate to ourselves and to others.

They’re not separate theories.

They’re different lenses on the same lived experience.

Those experiences shape us to form our 3 voices and our life script - an unconscious storyline about who we are. Life positions then show how that script plays out in a relationship.

To find out more, sign up for ‘Life Scripts - Resilience Toolkit’ on Zoom, Wed 7:30-8 pm. I’m happy to answer questions in the DMs

06/02/2026

Hi, I’m Tara — and I never planned to become a therapist.

I went to art school, became a theatre costume maker, then retrained in massage therapy and built my own practice.

Along the way, I became a parent, navigated neurodivergent family life, home-educated a teenager overwhelmed by school, and learned first-hand how anxiety and burnout live in the body.

Anxiety is my default setting - but I now know how to work with my nervous system, set boundaries, and slow things down when life gets loud.

I work with anxiety, chronic health conditions, and overwhelmed nervous systems.

After nearly 20 years in Scotland, I’m now back in South Oxfordshire, working from a clinic I built myself (with my husband’s incredible help).

This space is where I share what I’ve learned - and I’m so glad you’re here.

Say hello below or DM me if something resonates.

I work with anxiety, chronic health conditions, and overwhelmed nervous systems.

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I absolutely love what I do for my living. My training as a holistic therapist started nearly twenty years ago. For me, being a therapist is as much about allowing people to feel as comfortable and as at ease as possible as soon as they walk in to my clinic. Massage or reflexology might be why they book to see me, but they are only going to get a great treatment if they feel happy enough to have a conversation with me, take a breath, slow down and find their space before they get on the table for their treatment. I opened The Therapy Room six years ago. Massage is my real passion and I take my ongoing training and professional development very seriously. I have regular one to one clinical support sessions and get plenty of massage myself. I don’t specialise in one type of client or condition. I feel it is important as a therapist to remember massage is not about knots and specific muscle groups, but about people, everyone of them different. They may come for their first session with a stiff and sore shoulder, but my job is to let them unravel and let go of what they need to in their own way. I have lots of clients with chronic health conditions and I love being part of their support network on their journey to manage their condition.