This professional is available for new clients.
This professional is available for new clients.
About me
Hello and welcome,
I'm Semeyra, a BACP accredited counsellor and psychotherapist. Thank you for reading my profile.
As an experienced therapist, I work with my clients to reflect, gain insight and awareness into their difficulties, what caused them, what might be keeping them going (internally - in terms of personal history, beliefs, motivations and externally in terms of their environment and behaviour) and consider any changes that might be needed to ultimately help them overcome their problems and move towards living the life they would like.
In my counselling and psychotherapy work, I am able to draw upon the experience and skills gained from 14 years of helping individual clients to overcome and manage the full spectrum of relationship, mental health and life challenges.
I am very experienced at working with people both short and long term, to make changes in their lives and break free from difficult patterns or repetitive behaviour that might have been holding them back.
In my work with you, I will provide a safe and supportive therapeutic setting, where we can work together to understand the issues that have brought you to therapy and find ways of moving forward and helping you make any changes that might be necessary to do this.
My original training was humanistic integrative (including psychodynamic) and I continue to integrate different modalities within my work, depending on the needs of the client.
My Experience
I have worked with people from many different backgrounds, to enable them to overcome a wide range of relationship, mental health and life challenges.
My special interests/ particular expertise is in working with individual people experiencing a wide range of relationship problems ( Including attachment -related issues, repetitive relationship patterns, problems starting/maintaining relationships, communication issues, sexual problems, break-ups ) as well as family/estrangement issues and childhood trauma.
Alongside my 14 years' experience and accreditation with individual clients, I am also now in-training to work with couples.
As well as my special interests I am also very experienced and able to work with a wide range of other issues including; low self-esteem, depression, anxiety, work stress, bereavement, past abusive experiences, illness, addictive behaviour, body image difficulties, cultural identity issues.
I have worked with many clients within my private practice, employee assistance programs, universities, and going further back - the mental health organisation MIND and the NHS, to overcome these difficulties and to move forward with their lives.
Training, qualifications & experience
Advanced Diploma in Humanistic Integrative Counselling
Diploma in Humanistic Integrative Counselling
Certificate in Humanistic Integrative Counselling
Further training in:
Fundamentals of working with couples - Juliet Grayson/ Bernd Leygraf -I am now in-training to work with couples.
Attachment issues
Internal Family Systems and parts work
Trauma and Disassociation
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
Personality Disorder
I am committed to continuous professional development and attend regular training events and conferences, relevant to my counselling work and areas of interest.
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Family difficulties, cultural issues. I am also now in- training as a couples therapist
Therapies offered
Fees
£75.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
My fees are £75 for a 50 minute individual session
£90 for couples.
When I work
I am on annual leave between Weds 23rd April- Monday 12th May 2025. I will respond to enquiries after this time.
Further information
I am unable to offer telephone consultations before we meet but I am happy to answer brief questions by email.
Once I have received your email, the next step would be to arrange a first (assessment) appointment, which is a full appointment.
