Skill, not personality
Self-awareness, empathy and resilience are practices anyone can build. We treat them as trainable - never as fixed traits you either have or don't.
About the studio
A small practice, built to last longer than a good week.
Tallow Lane began in 2016 above a framing shop on the street it's named after - two rooms, two chairs, and a stubborn belief that emotional skill is something you can practise your way into.
Our story
We're not a clinic and we're not a wellness brand. We're a studio - somewhere you come to make something, in this case a steadier relationship with your own feelings.
Founder Esmé Tallow trained in counselling psychology and spent a decade inside large services watching good intentions get lost in waiting lists. She wanted somewhere slower and more honest - where the work happened in small, repeatable blocks and nobody pretended six weeks could fix a whole life.
Nearly a decade on, four of us work here. We've held more than 1,400 sessions, run dozens of courses, and quietly helped people sort the practical things - paperwork, access, advocacy - that weigh on wellbeing as much as anything internal.
What we believe
Three principles
we won't bend on.
Small and repeatable
We'd rather give you one habit you'll keep than ten insights you'll forget. Progress here is measured in weeks of practice, not breakthroughs.
Wellbeing is practical too
Feeling safe and supported isn't only internal work. Sometimes it's a form filed, an entitlement claimed, a weight lifted. We help with that.
The people
Four practitioners,
one small room each.
Esmé Tallow
Founder · Counselling psychologist
Started the studio in 2016. Leads the emotional-growth blocks and trains the rest of us in the method.
Nadia Brandt
Resilience coach
Runs our pressure-and-coping work. Former crisis-line trainer who believes the pause is the whole skill.
Caleb Frost
Courses & workshops lead
Designs the small-group sessions on communication, confidence and self-image. Patient, funny, exacting.
Rumi Adeyemi
Access & advocacy specialist
Helps clients navigate benefits, ID and accommodations - the practical scaffolding behind feeling well.
Come see the room before you commit.
The first call costs nothing and asks nothing. If we're not the right fit, we'll say so and point you somewhere that is.
Book your first call