About Serife
Serife Dent uses a practical, person-focused approach to help people manage stress, anxiety and family tensions. She is a BACP counsellor with four years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. Serife keeps conversations direct and respectful, and she aims to make the first steps feel easier for people who are uncertain about therapy.
She shapes sessions around each person's needs rather than applying one fixed method. That might mean looking at thoughts and behaviours that keep problems going, or spending time listening and reflecting to better understand personal history.
How Serife works
She helps people talk through relationship and intimacy matters, grief and loss, and the day-to-day pressures that affect mood and work. Serife also works with issues such as trauma and abuse, self-esteem, LGBT concerns, anger and career stress. Additional areas she addresses include family of origin difficulties, separation and divorce, body image and feelings of emptiness or dissociation.
Sessions can combine practical strategies with longer-term exploration of patterns and past experiences. Her style is warm and attentive, focused on building trust and setting realistic goals. She explains options in plain language and tailors the plan as progress is made.
The goal is to help people leave sessions with clearer steps they can try between meetings. People meet Serife by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling sessions to suit their timing and needs. She offers a range of online formats so people can choose what fits their life and comfort level.
Serife lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Serife works with
The areas below are the ones Serife selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches suited to online counselling
Serife uses Client-Centred Therapy to create a respectful space where the person leads the conversation and the counsellor reflects and supports. This approach helps when someone needs to be heard and to make sense of feelings at their own pace.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy or CBT, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing practical changes. CBT can help with anxiety, depression and stress by giving clear strategies to try between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Serife will discuss options and agree a route that fits the person's goals, preferences and life circumstances. That might mean using one method primarily or combining elements from different approaches over time.
Online formats offer flexibility for people with busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations when seeing facial cues matters. Phone sessions can be quicker and need less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging suit short check-ins, reflective writing or people who prefer not to use audio. These choices help sessions fit around work, family and daily routines, and they make it easier to keep therapy consistent.
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