Alev Butun

Alev Butun is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with eight years of experience. She offers calm, respectful support for people facing stress, anxiety and depression. Alev aims to make the first step feel manageable and works alongside each person at their pace.

Her style is warm and sensitive. She listens without rushing and adapts conversations to what matters to the individual. Sessions focus on practical ways to manage difficult feelings and on building small, steady changes that feel achievable.

Alev draws on client-centred methods to keep the work grounded in the person's own goals. She also uses mindfulness tools to help with anxiety and stress, and psychodynamic ideas to look at longer-term patterns that affect wellbeing.

People come to her with a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting pressures, career stress and compassion fatigue. Isolation and loneliness are also areas she helps people talk through and understand.

Her approach is collaborative: she and the client set priorities together and revisit them as things shift. Sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time, and practical arrangements are confirmed when booking.

To make contact, people use the Start Therapy process on the site and complete a short matching questionnaire before scheduling according to the listed availability.

How these approaches translate to online work

Alev commonly uses client-centred therapy and mindfulness practices in her work. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and responding to what the person needs most, helping them set the agenda and choose the pace. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing exercises to reduce anxiety and help manage stress.

Choosing an approach is collaborative. The therapist will discuss different options with the person and together they will agree what feels most useful. That plan can change over time as needs and goals shift, so the early sessions often focus on finding the best fit.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into everyday life, for example by removing travel time and allowing appointments during lunch breaks or in quieter parts of the day. The available session formats are not specified here, so please confirm current options before booking. Many people find online sessions helpful for maintaining regular contact while balancing work, family and other commitments.