Counsellor profile
Alev Butun, BACP
BACP counsellor - family and parenting concerns
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- Client-Centered Therapy
- Mindfulness techniques
- Psychodynamic ideas
About Alev
Alev Butun is a BACP counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with eight years of professional experience. She works with adults who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and self-esteem concerns. She also supports people facing life changes, relationship and family worries, and parenting strain.
Alev structures sessions around a conversational, client-centred approach. She listens to what matters most and helps people talk through immediate problems. She uses mindfulness techniques to help reduce anxiety and improve focus. She also draws on psychodynamic ideas to look at patterns that repeat across relationships and life choices.
Practical issues often come up in sessions. People bring difficulties like codependency, communication problems, control issues and feelings of emptiness. Alev also works with concerns such as grief, intimacy issues, anger, career stress, and compassion fatigue. She responds to immigration-related stress, guilt and shame, and the particular pressures many women and young adults face.
Sessions are conversational and reflective. Alev aims to help people recognise unhelpful patterns and develop clearer ways of coping. Mindfulness exercises and short practical strategies are used where helpful. The focus is on manageable steps rather than long lists of tasks.
People interested in working with Alev complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule a first appointment. Costs vary with location and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time. Sessions are offered in English and international clients are not currently accepted.
How sessions work
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Alev uses client-centred work that focuses on what each person brings to sessions. That means the conversation follows what feels most important to the client and the counsellor reflects back what she hears to help clarify feelings and choices.She also uses mindfulness techniques to help reduce acute anxiety and support calmer focus. These are short, practical exercises that can be practised between meetings to manage stress and mood. Psychodynamic ideas are used to spot repeating patterns in relationships and behaviour, which can be useful for understanding long-standing difficulties such as codependency or control issues.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The counsellor will talk with the client about goals, preferences and current problems and agree on which methods to use. This is a collaborative process and approaches can be adjusted as the work progresses.
Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current online options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week and to keep therapy going when travel or work make in-person appointments difficult. Shorter check-ins, quieter timings and flexible scheduling are practical benefits that many people find helpful.
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Experience
8+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Questions
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What kinds of concerns does she help with?
She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, self-esteem issues, relationship and family worries, parenting strain, grief, and related problems listed in her profile.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Sessions are conversational and client-centred, with practical mindfulness tools and reflective discussion about recurring patterns in relationships and behaviour.
How long has she been practising?
She has eight years of professional experience working with the concerns listed in her profile.
What credentials and location are shown?
She is listed with BACP and practises in the United Kingdom.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people from other countries work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How are sessions paid for?
Costs vary with location; sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin a first session?
Begin by selecting the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule your first appointment.
Details come from information the counsellor supplied to BetterHelp. A registration can be checked with the body that issued it.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If anyone is in danger, use the crisis numbers.