Ayan Yahye, BACP

Ayan Yahye is a counsellor who uses Client-Centred Therapy alongside Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to support people through change and hardship. She holds BACP registration, and her work focuses on helping clients find practical steps forward while respecting their pace and experience. Ayan aims to build a warm, non-judgemental relationship to make it easier to talk about difficult topics.

She approaches therapy with attention to mental, physical, social and spiritual aspects of life. Sessions tend to be collaborative, with the client’s goals shaping the work. CBT is used to spot unhelpful thinking and try different ways of responding, while client-centred methods focus on listening and reflecting back what matters to the person.

Ayan has three years of experience and works with issues such as stress, anxiety, depression and grief. She also supports people with relationship and family concerns, parenting strain, caregiver stress and challenges around intimacy and self-esteem. Additional areas include trauma, addictions, eating and sleeping difficulties, and multicultural concerns.

Her approach often addresses attachment, body image, communication problems, control issues and feelings of guilt or shame. She can help with panic attacks, post-traumatic stress symptoms and building self-love and life purpose. The aim is practical change alongside increased understanding of patterns that cause distress.

Sessions are carried out in English and Ayan accepts clients based in the United Kingdom as well as international clients. To begin, clients use the site’s Start Therapy button to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to the therapist’s availability.

How Ayan uses client-centred and CBT online

Ayan works with two core approaches. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on active listening, empathy and reflecting back what the person says so they can make sense of their own experience. This approach helps when someone needs to feel heard and to explore feelings at their own pace.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and uses straightforward exercises to test and change unhelpful patterns. It can be useful for anxiety, low mood, panic and unhelpful routines.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Ayan discusses goals and preferences with each person and adapts the style accordingly. That means sessions can shift towards more listening or more practical skill-building as needed, in collaboration with the client.

Practical benefits of online therapy include fitting sessions into busy days and reducing travel time. Because the exact session formats are not specified in the biography, confirm current options before booking so you know how sessions will be conducted. Online work can make it easier to keep appointments around work, caring duties or time zones and allows steady progress without needing to rearrange large parts of life.