About Pinar
Pinar Cakir is a counsellor who blends psychodynamic ideas with practical, person-centred ways of working. She draws on five years of experience to help people notice patterns from earlier relationships and understand how those patterns affect day-to-day life now. Her approach is calm and conversational, aimed at making it easier to talk about difficult feelings.
Pinar focuses on issues such as stress, anxiety, depression, grief and LGBT concerns. She also supports people dealing with family problems, relationship strain, and life transitions.
Background and approach
Sessions are a place to name what feels stuck and to try out different ways of responding to it. Her background includes training recognised by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She uses psychodynamic ideas alongside Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and solution-focused techniques.
That mix lets sessions combine reflection on the past with practical steps for the present. Pinar aims to build a steady therapeutic relationship where people can speak without being judged. She pays attention to how earlier experiences shape current reactions and works with clients to shift unhelpful patterns.
Many people find this helpful when they are dealing with grief or ongoing anxiety. Work with Pinar is collaborative. She encourages clear goals and regular check-ins so progress can be reviewed.
Conversations are straightforward and paced to suit each person’s needs.
Therapeutic approaches for online counselling and change
Psychodynamic therapy looks at how early relationships shape current feelings and reactions. It helps people make sense of repeating patterns and emotional responses that show up in daily life. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on noticing difficult thoughts and feelings and choosing actions that match personal values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress and making changes that matter to someone.Pinar aims to find the right blend of approaches with each person. She will talk through goals and preferences and together decide which methods to use. That collaborative process means the work can shift if a different approach seems more helpful over time.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when bandwidth permits. Phone sessions can be used when a quieter or less visual check-in is preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins, notes between sessions, or people who communicate better in writing. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caregiving and travel while still working with a registered or accredited professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Jealousy
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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