About Serife
Serife Erten is an ACA and PACFA credentialed counsellor with 28 years of clinical experience. She helps people manage anxiety, stress, grief, relationship strain and life changes. Her manner is calm and respectful, and she listens first to understand what matters most to each person.
Serife works in a way that fits the person in front of her. Sessions are collaborative and paced to individual readiness. She draws on practical strategies to reduce anxiety, improve emotional regulation and rebuild confidence.
Background and approach
Simple tools and small steps are common goals in early meetings. Her background includes independent practice, community mental health, education and trauma-focused services. That mix shapes a flexible approach that suits short-term coaching goals and longer-term therapeutic work.
She also supports people navigating chronic illness, career strain, parenting pressures and complex grief. Serife uses a blend of therapies to match a client's needs rather than a single method. She may use Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to shift unhelpful thinking, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values, or Dialectical Behaviour Therapy skills for emotion regulation.
Narrative and solution-focused techniques also appear when telling and reframing life stories is useful. Sessions can be delivered in English or Turkish. Her practice aims to help people build coping skills, solve practical problems and reconnect with what matters most.
Starting is a step-by-step process that begins by identifying immediate concerns and practical next actions.
How Serife’s approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to clarify what matters to them and take small actions that match those values. It can help when anxiety or avoidance stops someone doing the things they care about. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings and actions and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, phobias and stress management.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Serife works collaboratively to choose methods that suit a person's goals, preferences and pace. She may combine elements of ACT, CBT or skills from Dialectical Behaviour Therapy depending on what the client needs in early sessions.
Online delivery offers flexibility and practical benefits. Video calls let people work face to face without travel. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging allow ongoing support between sessions and can fit into busy schedules. These options make it easier to maintain continuity during work or family commitments and to practise techniques between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Turkish
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