About Ilkay
Ilkay Alici is a counsellor and psychotherapist who supports people dealing with anxiety, stress, relationship difficulties and life changes. She is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and brings 14 years of clinical experience to her work. Ilkay speaks English and Turkish and accepts international clients.
Ilkay offers a calm, patient approach in sessions. She aims to create a space where people can speak openly and be heard without judgement.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and focused on practical steps that help manage day-to-day problems. Her approach draws on Client-Centred Therapy to prioritise the person in front of her. She also uses elements of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and Mindfulness Therapy to build present-moment coping skills.
Methods are chosen to fit each person, not the other way round. Ilkay has worked with a wide range of concerns across 14 years, including trauma and abuse, grief, parenting tensions, addictions, sleep and eating problems, and mood conditions such as depression and bipolar. She also supports people facing career stress, compassion fatigue and the challenges of adoption and attachment issues.
In online or remote sessions Ilkay focuses on practical tools and small experiments between meetings. She encourages clear goals and regular check-ins so progress can be seen and adjusted. Her work is grounded and aimed at helping people regain a steadier, more manageable day-to-day life.
Approaches you can use online with a therapist
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person without judgement. It helps people explore their feelings and find their own solutions, which can be useful for anxiety, relationship worries and self-esteem concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact. It involves practical exercises and experiments to reduce anxious thinking and change patterns that keep problems going.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus. It can help with stress, sleep problems and managing strong emotions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with clients about goals, needs and preferences, and together they will choose or combine methods that suit the person. This is a collaborative process and can be adjusted over time.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people see facial cues and use visual tools. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier to fit around work. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins and ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy going when life is busy or when travel is difficult.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Turkish
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