Pinar Cakir, BACP
5 years in practice
Pinar Cakir is a counsellor who uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy alongside psychodynamic and client-centred approaches to help people understand their emotions and relationships.
License and registration
- BACP
- 403942 · expires July 2026
- Years in practice
- 5
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the registration with the body that granted it.
About Pinar
Pinar Cakir is a counsellor who uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy alongside psychodynamic and client-centred approaches to help people understand their emotions and relationships. She draws on five years of clinical experience in the United Kingdom to support people facing stress, anxiety, depression and grief. Pinar makes space for honest conversation and practical steps forward.
She aims to build a steady therapeutic relationship where clients feel heard. Sessions focus on naming emotions, noticing patterns in relationships, and trying small changes to test what helps.
Background and approach
The work is gradual and guided by the client’s pace. Pinar supports people dealing with LGBT issues, family tensions, bereavement and related challenges. She also works with concerns such as ageing and geriatric issues, fertility worries, hoarding, and the effects of trauma.
Her practice covers a wide range of emotional and interpersonal difficulties. Her clinical tools include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people live by their values, psychodynamic ideas to explore past influences, and solution-focused methods to set short-term goals. The mix is tailored to each person rather than fixed ahead of time.
Pinar works with people who prefer online and remote sessions, offering video calls, phone appointments, live chat and text-based messaging. Sessions are arranged through a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Pinar lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Depression
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Dependent personality
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Jealousy
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Somatization
- Visually impaired
- Young adult issues
Approaches Pinar names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How therapeutic approaches work online
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people recognise and work with strong emotions that affect relationships. Online sessions use conversation and focused exercises to name feelings and try new ways of responding. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify values and take small actions that move life in a chosen direction. In remote sessions ACT often uses simple exercises and short behavioural experiments to build momentum. Client-Centred Therapy puts the person’s experience at the heart of the work and encourages honesty and self-direction through empathic listening and reflection.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals, try methods that might help, and adapt the approach as progress is seen. This collaborative way makes it easier to find what feels most useful for the individual.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different routines. Video calls give face-to-face interaction for deeper conversations. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and messaging allow brief check-ins or more flexible communication across the week. These formats make therapy more accessible for people with busy schedules or mobility limits and can be combined as needs change.
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Questions people ask
What issues does Pinar commonly help with?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, grief and LGBT related concerns. She also works with family conflict and a range of related problems.
What is Pinar’s therapeutic style?
Her work combines Emotionally-Focused Therapy with psychodynamic and client-centred approaches. Sessions focus on feelings, relationship patterns and practical steps forward.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Pinar has five years of experience working with emotional and relational issues in the United Kingdom. That experience informs her approach to different concerns.
What credential does Pinar hold and where is she based?
She is listed with the BACP, which is shown as BACP in her profile, and she works from the United Kingdom.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English. She also accepts clients who are based outside the UK.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How are fees handled?
Sessions use a subscription that varies with location and therapist availability, and the subscription can be cancelled at any time.
How do I start working with her?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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