About Meltem
Meltem Hussein is a counsellor who focuses on helping people who are anxious, stressed or dealing with big life changes. She works with concerns such as anxiety, depression, grief and relationship difficulties. Meltem uses straightforward talking, drawing and writing to help people make sense of what they are feeling and find practical next steps.
Her approach is collaborative. She listens first, then helps people choose ways of working that suit them.
Background and approach
That might include talking in a client-centred way, looking at how thoughts affect feelings with cognitive techniques, or exploring attachment patterns that shape relationships. Meltem trained to diploma level in counselling and holds registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She keeps learning through ongoing continued professional development and has five years of practice experience.
She has supported people with a range of concerns including bereavement, trauma and abuse, addictions, self-esteem and sleep problems. Meltem has also worked in a bereavement service and in independent practice, so she is familiar with both short-term and longer-term support. Sessions are shaped around each person’s goals and pace.
Meltem offers a warm, respectful atmosphere and encourages creative ways to work, such as drawing or writing, when that helps someone express difficult feelings. Her aim is to help people regain a sense of control and rebuild resources that have been lost through distress or difficult life events.
How Meltem’s approaches work online
Meltem commonly draws on client-centred work and cognitive behavioural techniques. Client-centred work means the therapist follows your lead, reflects what you say and helps you feel heard so you can explore feelings at your own pace. Cognitive behavioural techniques look at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and offer simple exercises to try between sessions to change unhelpful patterns.She may also use attachment-based ideas to understand how early relationships shape current difficulties. That approach helps people see repeating patterns in relationships and develop different ways of relating that feel safer and more fulfilling. The therapist will discuss these options with you and agree together which approaches to use based on your needs and goals.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy lives or who live far from services. Video calls are useful for richer face-to-face discussion, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text sessions suit short check-ins or when typing helps expression. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family or travel and to continue work between sessions through messaging.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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