Alev Butun, BACP

Alev Butun works as a counsellor in the United Kingdom and brings eight years of professional experience to her practice. She uses a respectful and compassionate approach and aims to make the first steps toward change easier to take.

Alev focuses on common and difficult problems such as stress, anxiety, depression, and the effects of trauma and abuse. She also helps people struggling with self-esteem, motivation, addictions and relationship or intimacy-related concerns. Issues such as grief, parenting strain, career stress and compassion fatigue are within her remit too.

Her ways of working are flexible and based on what each person needs. She tailors conversations and a plan to fit someone’s goals and circumstances. That can mean a calm, listening-led session or a more exploratory conversation about past patterns that still affect life today.

Alev draws on Client-Centred methods to make clients feel heard, mindfulness practices to support moment-to-moment coping, and psychodynamic ideas to look at deeper patterns and themes. She aims to balance immediate, practical steps with attention to longer-term change.

People who want a respectful, steady counsellor who will personalise the work may find her style helpful. Taking the first step can feel hard, and she offers steady support while people decide what they want to work on next.

How her approaches translate to online counselling

Alev uses Client-Centred Therapy, which means sessions focus on listening and reflecting to help people feel understood and to surface what matters most to them. That approach is useful for people who need a calm space to talk things through and feel held while they decide next steps.

She also uses Mindfulness Therapy to teach attention and breathing skills that help manage anxiety, stress and low mood. Mindfulness exercises can be practised during a session and between meetings to build coping skills.

Psychodynamic Therapy is part of her work where helpful, looking at recurring life patterns and how past experiences influence current feelings and relationships. This can help when people want to understand deeper sources of distress rather than only deal with immediate symptoms.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to decide which methods suit the client's needs, goals and preferences and may adjust the plan over time based on how the work progresses.

Practical benefits of online therapy include fitting sessions into a busy week and making it easier to attend without travel. If you want to know which session formats are available, confirm the current options before booking so you can pick what fits your schedule and technical needs.