Tamara Coughlan: Psychotherapy, Meditation & Yoga

19/01/2026

This Easter…
AUTUMN SILENT MEDITATION REAT
3rd-6th April
Stroud Monastery
Deposit only required and payment plans available.
Bookings and more info in link above 🧡

10/01/2026

A dear friend of mine took some professional photos this week. (Thankyou thank you 😊😊)

Just a text and a shared moment of inspiration and creativity.
Just a quiet moment of choosing to be seen.

It stirred something in me.

Being a therapist is a strange kind of visibility.
There’s an internalised stigma in this work as a therapist.
Of letting the role speak.
Of safety through neutrality.
And also… a subtle hiding that can pass as humility.
I’m noticing how identity shifts when truth is allowed to be embodied.

Who am I when I’m not trying to appear “therapeutic”?
When I’m not softening myself to be palatable,
or dimming my clarity to avoid being misunderstood?

To be seen is not the same as being exposed.
Being seen is a relational act.
It asks: Can I let what is true land in another nervous system. Including my own?

I don’t want to hide behind my work. Nor do I want over share beyond the maturation of insight. Sometimes in my fresh curiosity I forget my depth of experience and sometimes my years of experience limit how I meet someone in that moment. Both are true.

It’s about how my humanness comes through in how I am with you.

These photos capture this. Thankyou Beth for seeing this in your photography talent.

10/01/2026

04/01/2026

People often ask what kind of therapy I practise, and sometimes it’s hard to answer. I can name my whole adult professional career and my own life long journey. It is all in the therapeutic relationship — somatic and nervous system work, OT, depth psychology, trauma therapy, yoga & meditation, contemplative and non-dual inquiry. They all matter. They help me see and understand and hold a wide lens. And mostly, what we do is sit. There is room for silence and stories, for sensation, for emotions and for what doesn’t yet have words. Nothing needs to be fixed. From this kind of presence, this therapeutic. Whatever that means for you.
I’m back in practice now. Welcoming in 2026. Spaces open for new clients too.

30/11/2025

It’s time again…
Join me next Easter 2026.
Payment plans available and only a deposit required to book you space.

Link in bio xx

30/10/2025

When people come together in silence, something happens that words can’t really touch. it’s just so real. The room softens. The armour drops. Masks we didn’t even know we have. And you can feel it, this quiet honesty between us. Without needing to smile or talk but simply be together.

Over the weekend, we sat, we practiced meditation a lot by coming into our heart space over and over again, we moved, we walked, we ate. We let the noise settle externally and internally. Some moments were peaceful, others were full of emotion or restlessness, but underneath it all was this sense of safety…like it’s okay to just be as we are. No fixing, no trying.

I felt so much gratitude and awe watching everyone find their own rhythm. Despite how many times I teach a silent retreat, I’m always left with fresh awe at the palpable reminder the way intentional silence brings people closer without a single word spoken. And matt’s food, the care and love in each meal. It nourished us on every level. We are a great team.

Coming back home, I feel both tender and full. The week is already moving again with the school mornings, the emails, the washing, my clients, check ins with friends and family, but something in me is still quiet. Like the silence came home too.

Grateful for everyone who showed up. For what we created together without needing to say a thing.

Our next retreat is Easter 2026. Lots of interest if you would like the book with a deposit for a place, details via my website.

12/10/2025

I’ve been slowly starting to shift into retreat preparation coming up next week…
There’s a tenderness in the preparation… in readying a space for silence.

Each time I do this, I’m reminded that the retreat isn’t something I run — it’s something we all enter.
Silence does the real work. It strips away the noise until only what’s true remains.

I too, enter the unknown, and yet I hold the familiar scaffolding on experience and knowledge.

There are spaces still available if the silence is calling…
Also please reach out if finances are a barrier, I’m am flexible with payments plans and acknowledge this financial reality in accessing something like too.

Link is in bio or book via www.tamaracoughlan.com

16/09/2025

This is my 10th year of facilitating silent retreats. The invitation is simple: to step away from the noise of everyday life and rest into silence, not as an escape but as a return.

The retreat is held in a monastic style. Intentionally. This means it’s not about luxury or indulgence, but about simplicity. We create a space where life is stripped back to what is essential—silence, practice, presence, rest.

The intention is to discover what arises when we no longer need to perform, achieve, or distract ourselves. To sit with the rawness and the tenderness of being, and to taste the quiet freedom that is always here. Within the Heart.

If the silence is calling…
October 23rd-26th
Booking in link above. Xx

10/09/2025

I know silence can feel intimidating.
Many people worry about what will happen when they stop and face their own mind. The hesitancy, habitual distractions and resistance. I’ve felt that too. The truth is, silence isn’t something we have to create — it’s always here, underneath the noise.

On retreat, I don’t ask you to force anything or get rid of your thoughts. I hold a space where you can meet yourself gently, at your own pace. With support, silence shifts from something to fear or avoid into something that feels safe. In that safety we open to the heart of who we really are.

Spaces filling for my next silent retreat October 23rd.

Bookings via link above

25/08/2025

I’ve been noticing how much I want to measure where I’m at—whether in therapy, meditation, or just in life. There’s this quiet pressure to feel like I’m moving forward, getting better, ticking off some invisible boxes of progress. Sometimes even external voices deciding what is healing and what isn’t. The era of insta-therapy.

But the more I sit with people in therapy, and in my own practice, the more I see how unhelpful that measuring stick can be. To me it can be an addiction to a state or an idea. We don’t move in straight lines. We circle back, we pause, we resist, we soften. What looks like “nothing happening” is often the nervous system quietly digesting and reshaping itself.

In silence, this becomes even clearer. On retreat, the striving falls away and I see how much of what I call “progress” is an internalised expectation. When the illusion of progress dissolves, what’s left is much simpler: being here. Nothing to get to, nothing to prove.

This is why I hold silent retreats. They’re not about self-improvement—they’re about remembering the ground that’s already here beneath all the striving. The heart of what is here.
My next silent retreat is on October 23rd. You’re welcome to join me. Booking in link above X

13/08/2025

Silence has been a steady companion in my life.
It’s met me in the moments I wanted to run, and stayed with me long enough to show me what was underneath. It’s where I’ve found clarity when my mind is so noisy, and a deep sense of okayness when nothing outside had changed.

In silence, I meet myself more honestly. I hear the truths that get lost in the rush. I remember what matters.

This is why I teach retreats in silence—because I’ve seen how quickly the layers start to fall away when we’re not filling the space with words. Something opens, softens, and deepens.

Please reach if there is a call for silence…
Deposit only required
Payments plans available
Booking link in bio

08/07/2025

I’ve been noticing how many of us are trying so hard to feel better. To do it right. To heal perfectly. The right decision. The right answer. But the nervous system doesn’t respond to pressure. It softens to presence. To truth. To being met without expectation.

Healing isn’t something we can push. It’s not a performance. It’s a relationship — cyclical, slow, and deeply human.

Some of the most profound shifts I witness aren’t loud or dramatic. They’re quiet. Subtle. Someone noticing they didn’t abandon themselves this time. A breath that finally finds its way home. A softening where there was once so much holding.

If you’re tired of trying so hard… if you long for a space where nothing about you needs to be fixed — I’d love to walk alongside you.

You’re welcome here, exactly as you are.