Filiz Benli
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About me
I am an experienced psychotherapist and a member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), providing long and short term individual psychotherapy in private practice in East and North London.
My approach is Existential-Integrative. Depending on the client`s need, I integrate Existential therapy with Focusing (working with felt sense on embodied experiences), Gestalt therapy, CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy) skills, meditation, and awareness of relational dynamics. I work holistically, in the sense that I include body awareness to explore what experiences and messages the body holds for the individual and how thoughts/emotions influence our body and nervous system.
As a psychotherapist, I offer a safe space to clients, where they can open themselves to their difficulties and express them. My aim is to be a caring and supportive host, and to form an honest, empathic yet challenging and collaborative relationship with my clients that will allow us to pay attention and understand what these difficulties are revealing to them about their relationships with themselves, with others and with the world. Moreover, I encourage clients to stay with their bodily sensations and feelings, as my believe is these sensations are there to tell us something, so we can hear the messages. Rather than a dogmatic or pathological stance, I am interested in exploring issues in depth with an open mind framework and related to client`s current circumstances and personal contextual history.
I offer sessions face to face, online or phone call which are dependent on your preference and comfortability. I offer therapy in English and Turkish, and work with clients from diverse backgrounds and cultures.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am fully accredited by the BACP and hold a Postgraduate Diploma in Psychotherapy and Counselling and am currently studying for a doctorate degree in Existential Psychotherapy at the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling. Alongside with my academic studies, my interest in transpersonal theory drove me to practice meditation and yoga for many years and train in meditation, breathwork and mindfulness which also enriches my therapeutic work.
My previous experience includes working for charity organizations and in private practice allowed me to gain a great depth of experience covering a wide range of issues including: domestic violence, abuse, trauma, grief, loss of meaning, depression, anxiety, panic attacks, stress, relationship issues, isolation, issues of being single parent, eating disorders.
Member organisations
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred).
Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision.
Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training.
All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£75.00 - £80.00
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
I offer limited space for concessionary rates
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Further information
Life can be very challenging, and we may experience ourselves in a crisis from time to time. These experiences may overwhelm us and bring us pain and anxiety; however, therapy can be helpful at these times of crisis. People often come to therapy because they realize their earlier life experiences still have an impact on their current life. This can be through an early trauma, abuse, neglect, or even through transgenerational trauma. An individual may have found temporary solutions to cope with the situation and to distract themselves from the core problem, but this inevitably comes at a price.
The result of an early unpleasant experience(s) might manifest itself as a feeling of low self-esteem, of feeling disconnected from life, a difficulty in forming good relationships, physical symptoms, eating disorders or addiction etc. From Existential psychotherapy point , we cannot predict what life brings to us, nor run away from pain and anxiety; however we can choose how to respond to them, make meaning from them and find better ways to cope which will help us to live our life more fully. .
Through therapy you can make sense of your own life, discover your sources and be more aware of choices within situations that also hold possibility for further growth.
A first step to empowering yourself would be to email me, to book an initial session to explore more what brings you to therapy. This session would also give an opportunity to us to see how it would be like to work together. If we feel it is a good fit, then we can set up a therapeutic framework for further sessions.
