I am a fully qualified integrative Counsellor and psychotherapist who is registered with the BACP (the professional body for counsellors). Whether you have or have not had counselling before I suggest you hear more about how I work as counsellors work in different ways.
As you know counselling is a ‘talking treatment’. This means we would explore together what you want to change and find a way forward that feels manageable for you. Through working with me in this way individuals begin to develop and change. This in my opinion is all done by having the capacity to heal, grow and create a life that is more fitting with what we desire. Meaning making and helping people re-discover and attain these inner resources that so often feel like they’re lost through either distortion, mistrust and experiences in life.
You can expect a warm, genuine and respectful attitude from myself when we work together. Drawing and writing are also a couple of other ways we can work together. After all.. these are your sessions!
I am a fully qualified Counsellor with individual registration with BACP (British association for Counselling and Psychotherapy).
I therefore have a diploma in Counselling and undertake continuing professional development through specialised training course.
I have helped individuals obtain relief from a wide range of issues including: Depression, anxiety, bereavement, relationship difficulties, guilt, trauma and abuse.
As well as working in private practice I have also counselled within a bereavement service.
If you have been in therapy before and that experience did not resolve your issues, bear in mind that psychotherapy for example, is a name for a very diverse range of theoretical models and treatment approaches, and individual psychotherapists apply the model and method in which they are trained in their personal way. Some peoples issues may be susceptible to almost any model or approach, whereas others need a particular method that not all therapists use.
I am trained in a number of models and approaches and try to tailor the treatment I offer to your particular needs, rather than to expecting your need to be susceptible to a single treatment approach.
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Additional areas of focus: Addictions, LGBT, Relationship issues, Trauma and abuse, Intimacy-related issues, Sleeping disorders, Parenting issues, Anger management, Career difficulties, Bipolar disorder, Coping with life changes, Coaching, Compassion fatigue, ADHD, Abandonment, Antisocial personality, Attachment issues, Avoidant personality, Blended family issues, Body image, Cancer, Caregiver issues and stress, Codependency, Commitment issues, Communication problems, Control issues, Coping with natural or human-caused disaster, Dependent personality, Dissociation, Divorce and separation, Domestic violence, Drug and alcohol addiction, Eating and food-related issues, Emptiness, Family of origin issues, Family problems, Fatherhood issues, Fertility issues, First responder issues, Forgiveness, Guilt and shame, Impulsivity, Infidelity, Isolation / loneliness, Jealousy, Life purpose, Men's issues, Money and financial issues, Multicultural concerns, Narcissism, Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD, Panic disorder and panic attacks, Phobias, Postpartum depression, Post-traumatic stress, Pregnancy and childbirth, Prejudice and discrimination, Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling), Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), Self-love, Sex addiction, Social anxiety and phobia, Women's issues, Workplace issues, Young adult issues
Clinical approaches: Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Existential Therapy, Jungian Therapy, Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Psychodynamic Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy
BACP Therapist - Registered Member MBACP #392929
These quotes represent just a few of the many positive reviews that we have received for Meltem Hussein. We don't pay anyone to provide their review and they are all made voluntarily. Some people's experience receiving therapy with BetterHelp might be different.
She is the best therapist that anyone can get ever
Written on Dec 17, 2025 after therapy with Meltem for 1 month on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, sleeping disorders, and adhd
Meltem made me feel seen and understood.
I have had therapy in the past and i have felt like a specimen.
With Meltem i feel relaxed and open, as if i am talking with someone i have known for years.
Our sessions fly by and at the end of each i feel like i am moving closer to understanding and accepting myself.
Written on Nov 02, 2025 after therapy with Meltem for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship issues, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, parenting issues, self esteem, and adhd
Meltem Hussein has been amazing with helping me through some difficult emotions. I especially loved how she really listened at the start to the things I wanted to work on, and has stayed focussed on that. I would highly recommend her as a therapist.
Written on Dec 02, 2024 after therapy with Meltem for 2 weeks on issues concerning family conflicts, parenting issues, and coping with life changes
Mel is very attentive, very gentle and very supportive in helping me work through my stuff.
Written on Jan 29, 2023 after therapy with Meltem for 2 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, self esteem, anger management, coping with life changes, and adhd
Mel has been an amazing therapist and absolutely instrumental in my progress. She is attentive, kind, honest, considerate and I felt like I could very easily connect with her on an authentic level. Even thought she was my therapist, it felt like I was talking to a very knowledgeable friend with amazing listening skills and advice, it helped me open up and share things that we could work on. She wasn’t afraid to ask me questions and could recognise that I often had the answer deep down, she helped me to hold myself accountable and learn how to be my own therapist moving forward. I have gotten so much out of these sessions and I feel confident to continue through the next journey with everything I have learned! Thank you so much Mel for everything!!
Written on Dec 16, 2022 after therapy with Meltem for 5 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, and anger management
I have had 3 sessions with Mel so far and I am already feeling more positive and my mindset has definitely improved after these sessions. I definitely recommend Mel as a therapist as she is a very good listener and makes you feel at ease and she gives good feedback and advice too.
Written on Nov 10, 2022 after therapy with Meltem for 3 weeks on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, grief, self esteem, and coping with life changes