About Filiz
Filiz Yilmaz is a counsellor and a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She draws on several ways of working to support people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, trauma, or low self-esteem. Filiz speaks English, Turkish and French and offers remote sessions from the United Kingdom.
She uses somatic ideas to help people notice how emotions show up in the body. That can mean slowing down breath, tracking tension, or noticing physical signals that link to past events.
Background and approach
She combines this with mindfulness and client-centred listening so people feel heard and grounded in the moment. Filiz often looks at attachment patterns and early relationships to understand current worries and relationship struggles. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) techniques to clarify values and help people make small, manageable changes.
Her approach aims to build awareness rather than push for quick fixes. Her background includes work with people facing family-related stresses, LGBT issues, immigration challenges, and the emotional impact of reproductive events such as IVF, pregnancy loss, and the postpartum period. She is attentive to neurodiversity and can support those navigating assessment and life after diagnosis.
Sessions happen online by video, phone, live chat or messaging. Filiz describes therapy as a collaborative process - she listens first, then helps shape a path forward that fits the person’s needs and pace.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Filiz blends somatic work and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) into online sessions. Somatic Therapy helps people notice bodily signals - such as tense shoulders or shallow breathing - and learn simple ways to ease physical stress. ACT focuses on values and small actions, helping people accept difficult feelings while committing to what matters most.She also incorporates Attachment-Based ideas to look at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and safety. These approaches are described plainly during sessions so clients can try techniques at home and notice what helps. Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work; Filiz collaborates with each person to test what fits their needs, goals and comfort level.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. That variety lets people choose how they communicate on any given day, whether they prefer talking face to face on video or sending messages between sessions. Remote sessions can make it easier to attend during busy or stressful periods and to continue work when life changes.
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does Filiz support people with?
What is her therapeutic style like?
How much experience does she have?
What qualifications and location are on record?
Which languages are available for sessions?
Can international clients work with her?
What formats do sessions take?
How do subscriptions and costs work?
Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, French, Turkish