Esra Kuscu , BACP, NCPS

Esra Kuscu is a counsellor and psychotherapist with six years of practice experience in the United Kingdom. She works in English and Turkish and supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma, grief and depression. Esra aims to create a calm space where clients can be heard and begin to make practical changes in day-to-day life.

Her background includes work across mental health settings which informs a grounded, problem-focused style. Sessions focus on clear goals and simple steps you can try between meetings. Esra uses tools from cognitive approaches and emotion-focused work to help people manage symptoms and build more helpful habits.

She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and reconnect with their values. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is used to identify thinking patterns and try new behaviours. Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing can be offered when past traumatic memories are affecting current life.

Esra often supports people with relationship strain, parenting stress, sleep and eating concerns, and workplace pressure. She also works with people facing grief, chronic health difficulties, or identity and attachment challenges. Practical exercises and agreed tasks are used between sessions to reinforce progress.

Work is collaborative and paced to each person. Esra asks about goals in early sessions and reviews progress so the plan can change as needed. She works with clients from the UK and internationally, and sessions take place through a range of online formats.

Practical approaches for online therapy

Esra uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and to reconnect with what matters in life. This approach can be helpful for anxiety, low mood and coping with life changes.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is used to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and to test new behaviours through small experiments. It is often useful for stress, sleep and eating difficulties and for managing low mood or worry.

Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing is available when past traumatic memories are causing ongoing distress. It focuses on reducing the emotional charge of those memories so daily functioning can improve.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Esra will discuss options with each person and decide together what fits best with their goals and preferences. That collaborative process guides how sessions are planned and which techniques are used.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let you meet face to face when you want to read body language and work in depth. Phone sessions can be quicker check-ins or a lower-bandwidth option. Live chat and text-based messaging suit short updates, reflection between sessions, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These choices make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and daily life.