Alev Butun
Compassionate counselling for stress and trauma
About Alev
Alev Butun is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with eight years of professional experience and BACP registration. She offers a calm, respectful approach and focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression and trauma. She aims to tailor conversations and plans to each person's situation.
Taking the first step towards change can feel hard, and she is available to support people through that process. In sessions she listens closely and adapts to what each person needs.
Background and approach
Her work draws on client-centred ways of relating, mindfulness practices, and psychodynamic ideas about how past experiences shape today's feelings. This mix helps when someone is struggling with low self-esteem, motivation, or confidence. She also supports people dealing with relationship and family problems, intimacy issues, grief, parenting strain, career stress and compassion fatigue.
Additional focus areas include codependency, communication problems, control issues, domestic violence, guilt and shame, and post-traumatic stress. She works with concerns common to young adults and women's issues as well. Sessions can address immigration-related stress, isolation, feelings of emptiness, life purpose questions, and addictions.
The therapist uses straightforward conversations, grounding exercises, and reflective listening to help people find clearer ways forward. Her style is practical and compassionate. She aims to create a steady space for people to talk, reflect and build new ways of coping.
The work moves at a pace that suits each individual.
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Sessions & fees
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy puts the person's experience at the heart of the work. In practice this means the counsellor listens without judgement, reflects what she hears, and follows the client's lead to help them make sense of their feelings. It is useful for anxiety, low self-worth and relationship questions.Mindfulness Therapy encourages moment-to-moment awareness and simple grounding practices. These short exercises can reduce overwhelm and help with stress, panic, sleep disruption and coping with strong emotions.
Psychodynamic Therapy looks at how past experiences influence present patterns. Through conversation the counsellor helps people notice repeated feelings or behaviours and consider different responses, which can be helpful for issues like trauma, codependency and long-standing relationship difficulties.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The counsellor will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then choose or combine methods collaboratively. This shared decision-making helps make sure the way of working fits the person's needs.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual connection matters. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a short break during the day. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing prompts, or when someone prefers typing to speaking. These formats make it easier to schedule therapy around work, study and family commitments.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
