Semra Akan
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About me
Welcome,
I am here to help you with your emotional dilemmas and stress-related presentations.
There are times in life we must deal with expected or unexpected challenges and may feel stressed, unhappy and even depressed.
We may feel lost and unable to find the right way to move forward in good terms with ourselves and significant others in our life.
I believe that therapy can offer you safe space and support to manage and successfully navigate from these places and create better working solution.
I would like to help you with supportive, encouraging space for you to be able to explore and work through these issues and find a way.
I am an experienced Systemic Psychotherapist and qualified supervisor working with children, families, individuals, and couples for over 20 years.
I am a qualified Systemic Psychotherapist, I am registered with the UKCP.
I offer therapy in English and in Turkish.
I am also qualified as a Systemic Supervisor and Tutor of Systemic Psychotherapy.
I bring to my work a range of valuable experiences from my 20 years as a Systemic Psychotherapist.
I have developed considerable knowledge, skills, and abilities in addressing the therapeutic, relational and emotional needs of couples, individuals, children and families in the community.
I help couples, individuals, children family members to move towards better ways of relating, managing challenges, dealing with change and distresses in life while improving quality of life assisting healing and personal development.
I have worked in number of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services setting with children and families in NHS, social care and education.
As an experienced therapist, I love working with children individually and in partnership with their parents. and I have developed significant skills in child focused practice.
I believe that individual work with children is very important and it allows time and space to enter their world.
The areas of clinical interest and specialist practice focus on relational networks and individual psychotherapy. This includes anxiety and depression and working with post-traumatic stress disorder along with offering longer term therapy to children and divorced couples, adoption and fostering, attachment related issues.
I have years of teaching and clinical and academic supervisory experience that supports my understanding of presenting issues and working toward building skills and supporting way of development and learning.
Training, qualifications & experience
- MSc in Family and Systemic Psychotherapy. University of Bedfordshire.
- PGD in Therapeutic Communication with Children Tavistock NHS.
- Diploma in Systemic Supervision and Teaching. University Of Bedfordshire
- Degree in Public Sector Management Studies.
- Certificate of Counselling Skills. City University London.
Member organisations
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The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is a leading professional body for the education, training and regulation of psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors. Its register is accredited by the government's Professional Standards Authority.
As part of its commitment to protect the public, it works to improve access to psychotherapy, to support and disseminate research, to improve standards and to respond effectively to complaints against its members.
UKCP standards cover the range of different psychotherapies. Registration is obtained by training or accrediting with one of its member organisations, or by holding a European Certificate in Psychotherapy. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
Accredited register membership
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
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Fees
£120.00 - £190.00
Free initial telephone or online session
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
- Couple and family session initial session fee is £90-£120
- Individuals £80 Online
- £80 to £90 in person
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Further information
I have many years of experience in many layers of clinical expertise, having worked extensively in social care integrated clinical service, child and adolescent mental health services, clinical supervision and teaching systemic psychotherapy in learning contexts.
I recognize that our many communities are full of diversity and difference with respect to many issues and these are an important aspect in what we do, I believe in partnership, working with clients, professionals and organizations in ways that recognize everyone’s needs and concerns.
My experience suggests that everyone has the capacity to develop their skills and abilities and
therefore, improve the ways in which they manage their relationships and the emotionally challenging issues they experience, and everyone has capacity to heal and develop thus therapy is a good way of developing these resources.
