Serife Dent

Serife Dent is a counsellor who uses a kind, person-centred approach to help people through difficult times. She works with stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns, and supports those coping with trauma, grief and anger. Serife is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and has four years of professional experience in the United Kingdom.

She starts by listening carefully to find out what matters most to each person. Sessions are shaped around individual needs, so conversations and practical steps are agreed together. Serife aims to be respectful and sensitive while helping people identify patterns that cause stress or conflict.

Her practice draws on several approaches, including client-centred listening, cognitive behavioural ideas to tackle unhelpful thinking, and psychodynamic thinking about past experiences that can affect current feelings. She also uses techniques from Imago Relationship Therapy and motivational interviewing when these fit a person’s goals.

In sessions Serife helps people work through self-esteem worries, intimacy-related difficulties, career pressures, and problems that arise from family-of-origin issues. She supports clients dealing with grief, compassion fatigue and the strain of life changes, helping them develop practical coping steps.

Many find the first steps hard, so Serife focuses on making the process straightforward. She will tailor a plan with pacing that suits each person and review it as goals shift. The emphasis is on clear, manageable progress rather than quick fixes.

How Serife’s approaches translate to online work

Serife draws on client-centred counselling and cognitive behavioural techniques to make online sessions practical and focused. Client-centred work means the session follows what the person feels is most important, with the counsellor listening and reflecting. Cognitive behavioural ideas help identify unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of responding to stress, anxiety and anger.

She also uses psychodynamic thinking to look at how earlier experiences might shape current reactions. These approaches can be blended to match what people want to achieve and how quickly they want to move. Finding the best approach is collaborative and happens over the first few meetings, with the counsellor and client checking what feels most useful.

If you are considering online work, confirm current session options before booking as formats are not specified in the biography. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. They can also suit quieter, more thoughtful conversations or practical work on changing thoughts and behaviours. The therapist will discuss session length, pacing and tasks together so therapy fits into everyday life and goals.