Meltem Hussein
Calm, collaborative counselling for life changes
About Meltem
Meltem Hussein works with people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, bereavement or life changes. She is a counsellor registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and presents a calm, respectful approach that aims to help people feel heard. Sessions may include talking, drawing or writing depending on what suits the person.
Meltem describes counselling as a talking process that looks at what a person wants to change.
Background and approach
She and the client set small, manageable steps and explore practical ways to move forward. The work focuses on helping people reconnect with inner resources that feel lost after difficult experiences. Her background includes a diploma in counselling and five years of practice in personal work and in a bereavement service.
She keeps learning through continuing professional development courses. This mix of experience supports work with issues such as depression, anxiety, grief, relationship strain and trauma. Meltem draws on several therapeutic approaches and adapts them to each person.
That can mean using attachment ideas to look at relationship patterns, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy techniques for unhelpful thoughts, or more exploratory methods when people want to understand meaning and identity. Sessions are shaped around the individual's needs rather than a single fixed model. Her manner is warm and genuine, with an emphasis on respect and collaboration.
People are invited to use talking plus creative options like drawing or writing when that helps the work feel more useful. The aim is steady, practical change that fits the person's life.
What Meltem works with
How Meltem works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches you can access online
Meltem commonly draws on attachment-based work and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). Attachment-based work looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people understand how past bonds shape current reactions. It can be useful for relationship difficulties, trust issues and attachment concerns. CBT focuses on spotting and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviours, and is practical for anxiety, low mood and sleep problems.She also uses a client-centred way of working that prioritises the person's experience and pace. That approach means sessions are shaped around the client's needs and preferences rather than a fixed method. Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work and the therapist will collaborate with the client to decide what feels most useful as therapy progresses.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction when fuller conversation is helpful. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging offer flexible, shorter exchanges that can fit into busy days and provide ongoing support between longer sessions. These options help make therapy more accessible and easier to fit around work, family or travel.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| 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
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
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
