Yaprak Ölmez
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About me
You may be looking for a therapist to:
- improve your relationships
- help you not to feel stuck anymore
- help managing your stress
- get relief from your suffering
- have a better understanding of yourself
These are some examples and all important reasons to be reaching out to a therapist. Humans are complex beings and therefore require a safe space, time, willingness and patience to bring an understanding to their complexity. Sometimes we need to stop and think about why we do what we do, especially if this feels wrong or unhealthy to us.
I am a BACP accredited psychotherapist. I have over eleven years of experience in working with children, young people and adults with various difficulties such as psychosis, personality disorders, depression, anxiety, gender and relationship issues in private and therapeutic community settings. As well as private practice, I am currently working part-time in the NHS Talking Therapies Service, offering short-term therapy to adults with depression and anxiety.
My work is psychoanalytically oriented. This means that I believe our past has an impact on our present and there are unconscious processes beneath our thoughts and everyday behaviours. It may often be difficult to recognise what is behind our difficulties. You may experience difficulty in making/keeping your relationships, feeling lost, stuck or depressed. Or something or someone you encounter may trigger an unexpected response in you that you may not know what it is at the time. Or you are feeling anxious and you do not know why. The therapeutic work can help you to understand why you have these difficulties and enable both short term and deeper changes.
There is no right or wrong reason to start therapy. It is important that you have a question in regards to any aspect of your life or a wish to understand yourself.
The therapeutic relationship is a very important part of your therapy. It is important to be able to feel safe and open up to your therapist so that the therapist can help you with your issues. Therefore, you should choose someone that you feel comfortable talking with.
Appointments online and in-person are available.
Training, qualifications & experience
- BA in Psychology, Istanbul Bilgi University
- MA in Counselling Children and Young People, University of Nottingham
- Postgraduate Diploma in Psychotherapy, Middlesex University
- Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, CFAR (Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research) - Ongoing
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
Free initial telephone session
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
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