Ayan Yahye, BACP

Ayan Yahye believes that people have the capacity to change, heal, and grow when given the right conditions and support, and that counselling can be a powerful route to positive change. She offers an integrative humanistic approach that considers mental, physical, social, and spiritual aspects of health and uses different modalities to tailor therapy to each person’s needs.

Her work centers on prioritizing the client’s pace, wisdom, and capacity for healing, and on building a congruent, empathic, and non-judgemental collaborative relationship. As an integrative humanistic counsellor she combines approaches when appropriate, including client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), to meet practical goals while also attending to personal meaning and growth.

Ayan is a member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), the professional body for counsellors and psychotherapists in the United Kingdom, and she follows their Code of Ethics and Conduct. She has experience supporting people with relationship difficulties, family conflicts, parenting challenges, motivation, self-esteem, and confidence, and works across a broad range of concerns including stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, eating and sleeping issues, anger, intimacy-related matters, depression, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.

She also focuses on related areas such as attachment issues, body image, caregiver stress, communication and control problems, divorce and separation, forgiveness, guilt and shame, isolation and loneliness, life purpose, mood disorders, panic attacks, post-traumatic stress, and self-love. Ayan aims to create an open, nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be explored safely, offering support and practical guidance as people take steps toward a more fulfilling and balanced life. More information is available on her website at www.ayanytherapy.com.