Burcu Arslan — Counsellor & Psychotherapist - MSc - GMBPsS
Hello, I’m Burcu Arslan, a counsellor working with adults and couples in both Turkish and English. I support clients experiencing anxiety, depression, relationship and attachment challenges, life transitions, and the emotional impact of immigration and cultural adaptation.
As a woman and an immigrant myself, I understand how cultural change, shifting identities, and relationship dynamics can affect emotional wellbeing. My work often focuses on women and men navigating attachment patterns, rebuilding trust, and deepening connection in relationships. My approach is person-centred, calm, and respectful. I believe therapy works best when you feel truly seen, heard, and understood.
Online Sessions
available anywhere in the world.
Therapy Services
Feeling anxious, disconnected or overwhelmed? You don’t have to face it alone.
I offer a warm, non-judgemental space to explore your emotions, strengthen relationships, and reconnect with your inner resilience.
• Anxiety • Depression and low mood • Stress and burnout • Relationship and attachment issues (women & men) • Different attachment styles and their impact on relationships • Life transitions & immigration adaptation • Women’s emotional health & empowerment • Confidence and self-esteem (I work with adults 18+ only.)
I offer person-centred therapy combined with practical tools drawn from CBT, attachment theory, grounding techniques, and mindfulness.
You set the pace — my role is to guide and support you with compassion, clarity, and honesty.
I work in person in Clapham (South West London) or online anywhere in the world, offering flexible access to therapy for Turkish and English speakers.
Person-centred counselling is a humanistic approach first developed by Carl Rogers. At its heart is the belief that life is growth, and that as such we all have the ability to grow and change. Counselling and therapy can help by providing the best conditions for growth – much as sunshine, water and nutrient-rich soil do for plants. In counselling these conditions are empathy (understanding and being in tune with how you are feeling), unconditional positive regard (compassion and acceptance), and congruence (being open to our own feelings, and authentic in our interactions). In life sometimes the idea of how things should be, or how we should behave, stops us from noticing what is really happening, or how we are truly feeling. Person-centred counselling aims to help us reconnect with our experiencing of ourselves and the world around us.
….we all have the ability to grow and change. Counselling can help by providing the best conditions for growth – much as sunshine, water and nutrient-rich soil do for plants.
The client is the expert (in themselves), and I strive to create a relationship based on equality rather than being ‘in charge’. Because of this deep trust in the client, counselling takes place at your pace. At times this can mean there are silences, and few questions, and at others more of a back and forth. The aim is that through a warm and understanding relationship, ultimately you, the client, will rediscover and hold this same trust in yourself.