About Serife
Serife Dent uses a client-focused approach that centres on each person's strengths and goals. She aims to create calm and practical sessions for people dealing with stress, anxiety and relationship tensions. Her style is warm and respectful, and she adapts sessions to fit what each person needs.
She has four years of professional experience working in the United Kingdom and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
Background and approach
That registration is shown here as BACP. She listens for what matters most and then builds a plan with clear, small steps to try between sessions. Serife mixes several approaches to suit the issue at hand.
She draws on Client-Centred Therapy to make space for a person's own pace and priorities. She uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to look at unhelpful thoughts and try practical changes that reduce stress and worry. She also brings elements of psychodynamic thinking to help people understand patterns that repeat across relationships.
Motivational Interviewing helps when someone feels stuck and wants to make changes but is unsure how to begin. Imago Relationship Therapy is used when people want to repair or deepen connection in close relationships. Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging.
Serife works with issues such as grief, self-esteem, intimacy and career stress and supports people exploring family and parenting tensions. She aims for simple, achievable progress in each meeting.
How these approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and following your pace. Online sessions using this approach give space for people to describe what matters most and set goals at a comfortable speed.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) uses short, practical tasks to change unhelpful thinking and reduce anxiety or low mood. In remote sessions this often includes simple between-session exercises and workbooks that people can use between calls.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through goals, preferences and past experience to choose or blend methods that suit each person. That choice is reviewed as things change so the plan stays useful.
Online formats offer flexibility and easier scheduling. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit a lunch break. Live chat or text messaging can suit brief check-ins, written reflections or people who prefer typing. Many people find the range of options helps them sustain regular sessions and fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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