About Yasemin
Yasemin Bek is a licensed mental health counselor practicing in New York. She focuses on stress, anxiety, self-esteem, depression, and the strain of life changes. She helps people clarify what matters and develop practical steps to feel steadier day to day.
Her style is warm and straightforward. Sessions aim to build skills people can use between meetings - breathing and grounding tools, clearer communication habits, and ways to cope when worry spikes.
Background and approach
She emphasizes developing self-compassion and stronger boundaries over time. With six years of clinical experience, Yasemin works from evidence-based techniques. She takes time to learn each person's history and current pressures before suggesting a plan.
That plan tends to combine short-term coping strategies and longer-term work on relationships, meaning, and identity. People often seek her help for attachment concerns, codependency, guilt and shame, or trouble setting limits. She also supports those dealing with blended family issues, caregiver stress, or infidelity to regain steadiness and perspective.
Sessions are offered in English and Turkish and can be scheduled by following the site's matching and booking steps. Yasemin aims to collaborate with each person so goals stay realistic and progress is measurable.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Yasemin uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on reducing anxiety and strengthening coping skills. One common approach she uses helps people notice unhelpful thinking patterns, test them in small steps, and replace them with more balanced thoughts to reduce worry and avoidance. This method is practical and works well for social anxiety, workplace stress, and rumination.She also emphasizes skills training for emotion regulation and communication. That work teaches concrete tools - calming practices, short behavioral experiments, and clearer ways to ask for needs - which help with relationship strain, codependency, and overwhelming emotions. These tools are practiced in session and applied between meetings to build momentum.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Yasemin collaborates with each person to identify goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan as progress becomes clear. She checks in regularly to make sure methods fit the client’s life and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexibility and access to consistent support. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed, and live chat or text messaging can keep momentum between meetings with shorter updates or exercises. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives while maintaining steady, goal-oriented progress.
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What this therapist works with
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- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Turkish
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