Serife Dent
Empathic, practical therapy for personal challenges
About Serife
Serife Dent works from a client-centred approach that puts the person first. She combines listening with practical tools to help people manage stress, anxiety and family conflict. Her style is direct but warm, helping people feel heard while they try new ways of coping.
Serife uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and test small changes. She also draws on psychodynamic ideas to look at past patterns that affect current relationships.
Background and approach
Together these approaches help with depression, grief, anger and intimacy-related issues. Her practice supports people facing parenting strain, blended family problems, divorce and separation, and fatherhood issues. She also helps with body image, self-esteem, commitment worries, and control or dependent personality tendencies.
LGBT concerns and compassion fatigue are included among her focus areas. Serife has four years of professional experience and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She tailors each session to the person in front of her, working at a pace that suits individual needs.
Sessions explore practical steps as well as deeper emotional material. People can expect a collaborative plan that mixes conversation, short exercises and goal-focused work. The aim is to build clearer thinking, steadier moods and better ways of relating to others.
Starting therapy often feels daunting. Serife aims to make the process straightforward and respectful, helping people move forward from stuck patterns and cope with life changes.
What Serife works with
How Serife works
Listed by Serife among the ways they work.
Listed by Serife among the ways they work.
Listed by Serife among the ways they work.
Listed by Serife among the ways they work.
Listed by Serife among the ways they work.
Sessions & fees
How these approaches work online and in sessions
Serife combines client-centred work with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to offer both listening and hands-on tools. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on understanding a person's experience and offering acceptance; it helps when someone needs space to talk and feel understood. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at thoughts and behaviours, helping people test small changes to reduce anxiety or low mood.She treats choosing a method as a collaborative process. The therapist will talk through goals, preferences and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they decide which approach or mix of approaches feels right and adapt the plan over time as needs change.
Online therapy gives practical flexibility. Video calls let people talk face to face when visual cues matter. Phone sessions work well if bandwidth is limited or if someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief check-ins, quick exercises or days when a shorter contact is needed. These options help people fit sessions around work, family and other commitments without losing continuity of care.
| 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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
