About Filiz
Filiz Yilmaz is a counsellor and a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She draws on three years of clinical experience to help people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and self-esteem challenges. Filiz speaks English, French and Turkish and works with people from varied backgrounds who want thoughtful, steady support.
Her practice blends several approaches to meet each person's needs. She uses attachment ideas to look at recurring relationship patterns and psychodynamic thinking to uncover past influences on present feelings.
How Filiz works
Client-centred care means the person in the room sets the pace and direction of the work. Mindfulness is used to build skills for noticing emotions and reducing reactivity. Filiz also pays attention to how emotions show up in the body, helping people name physical responses to stress, pain or trauma.
This somatic focus is practical and down to earth. She offers support around family-related concerns, LGBT issues, immigration challenges and relationship problems such as communication and separation. Filiz also works with people navigating fertility, pregnancy loss, postpartum and menopausal changes, and she has a particular interest in neurodiversity and autism.
Sessions aim to increase self-awareness, improve emotional regulation and create clearer choices in daily life. Filiz encourages small, manageable steps and frank conversation about what is working and what needs to change.
Filiz lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Filiz works with
The areas below are the ones Filiz selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English, French, Turkish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people focus on values and small actions that matter even when feelings are strong. It is useful for anxiety, stress and getting unstuck from avoidance. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early relationship patterns to explain repeated difficulties in close connections and can help people change how they relate to others.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Filiz treats therapy as a collaboration and will talk with each person about their goals and preferences. Together they choose methods and adjust the plan as progress is made, so the approach fits the person's day-to-day life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging, making it easier to fit therapy around work or family commitments. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls need less bandwidth and can be a good shorter check-in, while chat and messaging suit people who prefer writing or want flexible timing. These options support regular contact and continuity of care with registered or accredited professionals.
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