About Tara
Family mediator, divorce coach, and therapist who understands both the paperwork and the personal challenges.
How I got here
My own divorce journey began several years ago, and it changed everything about how I understood myself. Amidst the grief and upheaval, I found myself asking a question I hadn't expected:
who am I, if I'm no longer a wife, partner or full-time mother?
Working through that question — alongside the very practical realities of separating a life, a home, and a business I'd co-founded and run — taught me more about resilience than anything else I've experienced and led me somewhere I wasn’t expecting.
During my own divorce, I began a regular yoga and mindfulness practice that became the foundation of my mental health and emotional wellbeing. During this time I discovered tools and practices that helped me well beyond sitting across from someone talking about how I was feeling. I began to understand that what I was experiencing wasn’t just taking place inside my head, but was affecting my body, my health and my ability to deal with stress.
I knew that I wanted to share these tools with other people navigating similar experiences which led me to train as a yoga teacher, and go on to complete an intensive 3 year Yoga Therapy diploma. It's also why I believe so strongly that separation isn't just something you think your way through — it's something your whole body goes through too.
I bring all of this into the work I do now: the practical experience of ending a marriage, exiting a business and building a new career in my forties, the emotional reality of redefining who I am outside of my married life and family, and the nervous-system tools that helped me get there.
Every divorce journey is different, and I'll never assume mine looks like yours. But I understand firsthand what it takes to come out the other side of this and build a life of meaning and happiness.
Qualifications & memberships
Family Mediator (Trained by Crowther Mediation)
Yoga Therapy Level 6 Diploma (The Minded Institute)
Child & Adolescent Mental Health Yoga Therapy (The Minded Institute)
Co-Founder, SHIFTwithin CIC
Divorce Coach — The Blackford Centre
Kent & Medway Domestic Abuse Champion
Member, Stour NCDR group
Member, College of Mediators
Member, Association for Coaching
Safeguarding Children Level 3
Understanding Domestic Abuse Level 2
Enhanced DBS
What I bring to this work…
Most separation support — mediation, coaching, therapy — is entirely talk-based. My work goes beyond that.
Separation is a physiological event, not just an emotional and practical one. I bring something unique: a Level 6 Yoga Therapy Diploma (Minded Institute), with a specialism in child and adolescent mental health, applied directly to separation and divorce.
That sits alongside:
Family Mediation — trained family mediator, working toward full FMCA accreditation
Divorce Coaching — certified divorce coach
Neurodivergence-aware support — specific experience helping neurodivergent adults and children navigate decision-making, anxiety and overwhelm
Alongside this: Safeguarding trained (Levels 2 & 3), and a Kent & Medway Domestic Abuse Champion. I'm also an active member of the Stour NCDR (Non-Court Dispute Resolution) professional network — a group of family law and dispute resolution professionals working collaboratively across Kent to help families resolve separation outside of court wherever possible.
Before this, I spent years in client relationship management, which is where I learned how to communicate clearly with people under pressure.
How I work…
Whichever door you come through — mediation, coaching, or wellbeing support — the same approach sits underneath: practical guidance, delivered with genuine understanding of what you're carrying emotionally while you make these decisions.
I hold clear boundaries between these three roles for any one individual/family relationship, so you always know exactly what kind of support you're getting from me at any given time.
Separation is one of the hardest things people go through — but it isn't the end of the story. Part of what I hold for people and families, especially in their hardest moments, is the certainty that there is a life on the other side of this worth building toward.
A note on approach
This work sits at the intersection of neuroscience, somatic practice and lived experience. It's trauma-informed and evidence-based but it's also practical. The goal isn't just understanding, it is about change that sticks and moving forward towards a life you have created for yourself.
I'm based in Whitstable and work with clients across Kent — including Canterbury, Faversham, Maidstone, Herne Bay and Thanet — as well as nationally online. If you're looking for a trauma-informed practitioner, yoga therapist or divorce coach in Kent, I'd love to hear from you.