Tara Bucknall is a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist with over 8 years experience, treating people in a variety of mental health settings and in private practice. Tara has experience in treating a wide range of mental health conditions including depression, anxiety, personality disorder and PTSD. Tara specialises in trauma, including experiences of abuse, loss and abandonment. Tara has a particular interest in childhood experiences, and how they shape our personalities and relationships. 

Tara uses her psychoanalytic understanding of the unconscious to explore the underlying causes for distress. Tara uses a psychodynamic and relational approach, tailoring the therapy in a client-centred way. Tara uses a combination of psychoanalytic ideas, such as attachment theory, and coping strategies such as mindfulness, grounding and emotion regulation techniques.