Seyma Gungor

With five years of clinical experience, Seyma Gungor is committed to helping people improve their quality of life and build the strengths they need to move forward. She is a qualified Mental Health Counsellor and Psychotherapist and a registered member of the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP). Seyma also holds membership of the British Psychological Society (BPS) and the American Counseling Association (ACA). She earned an MSc in Mental Health Counselling and a BA in Psychology from Niagara University, New York, and since relocating from the United States she has been practising in London, United Kingdom, offering psychotherapy services to her clients.

Seyma has completed specialised clinical training and works with a wide range of mental and behavioural health needs, including addictions. Her experience includes providing individual therapy, group work, community integration activities and contributing within therapeutic milieus. She has worked with adults, children, young people and families.

Her clinical expertise covers treatment for depression, anxiety and trauma through individual psychotherapy, and she has experience delivering counselling for Dual Diagnosis and co-occurring disorders, anxiety management, serious mental illness (SMI), depression management, post-traumatic stress management and alcohol or substance use recovery.

Seyma’s therapeutic approach is grounded in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and person-centred therapy. She also incorporates Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) interventions, mindfulness-based psychotherapy, motivational enhancement techniques and solution-focused therapy as suited to each client’s needs.

She supports people with stress, anxiety, relationship and family difficulties, self-esteem concerns, coping with life changes, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues, sleep problems, parenting challenges, anger, career matters, bipolar disorder, depression, compassion fatigue and ADHD. Seyma offers CBT, humanistic, integrative, person-centred, emotion-focused and solution-focused brief therapy modalities and works with adults, children, couples, families, groups and young people. Therapy is available as long-term face-to-face work, short-term face-to-face work, online counselling and telephone counselling.