Mehtap "May" Cigdem, PACFA
10 years in practice
Mehtap "May" Cigdem is a PACFA counsellor with ten years of professional experience in Australia.
License and registration
- PACFA
- 29760 · expires June 2026
- Years in practice
- 10
- Languages
- English
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About Mehtap
Mehtap "May" Cigdem is a PACFA counsellor with ten years of professional experience in Australia. She offers calm, practical help when life feels overwhelming. Her approach is warm and straightforward, aimed at helping people manage stress, anxiety and grief so they can function better day to day.
May focuses on relationship and parenting concerns alongside trauma and abuse. She listens for patterns that cause pain, such as attachment wounds or repeated avoidance, and helps people name what is happening.
Background and approach
Conversations are tailored to each person’s needs and paced to suit how they cope with emotion. Her work draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy alongside cognitive and acceptance-based methods. That means attention to feelings and the bonds that shape them, combined with tools to change unhelpful thoughts and actions.
Sessions are practical - there is room to reflect, practise new responses, and try small behavioural experiments between meetings. May also supports people facing long-term health issues, caregiver stress, grief after loss, and complex family changes like separation or blended family challenges. She pays attention to how guilt, shame and past abandonment can affect current relationships.
Sessions are offered in English and delivered online by phone, video, live chat or text. She explains each step and helps people set realistic goals for change. The tone in sessions is respectful, direct and supportive, focused on helping people build emotional resilience.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Mehtap lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Mehtap names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
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Online support
How May’s approaches translate to online therapy
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) pays attention to feelings and the ways people connect. In online sessions this means naming emotions clearly and working on the interaction patterns that keep people stuck, useful for relationship pain and attachment wounds.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on values and small actions that move people toward a meaningful life. In practice this looks like noticing difficult thoughts, practising acceptance, and trying brief behavioural experiments between appointments to test what helps.
Attachment-Based Therapy highlights early bonds and how they influence current relationships. Online work can include mapping those patterns, rehearsing new responses and building awareness of how one’s attachment style shows up in daily life.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences and what feels doable, then suggest a mix of approaches tailored to those needs. Clients are invited to give feedback so the plan can be adjusted as work progresses.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into short breaks, live chat works for steady check-ins, and text-based messaging is useful for quick reflections or homework. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules while continuing consistent work on emotional goals.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does May help with?
She helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, grief and parenting challenges, plus related issues such as attachment concerns, abandonment and communication problems.
What is her general therapy style?
Her style is warm, direct and practical. She listens closely to emotions and patterns, then works with clients on small steps and skills they can try between sessions.
How much experience does she have?
She has ten years of professional experience working with people in Australia.
What credential does she hold and where is she based?
She is credentialed with PACFA and practices from Australia.
Which languages and international arrangements are supported?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available online?
Sessions can be delivered by video call, phone session, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin if I want to work with her?
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