The City Therapist
About
Hello, my name is Ahmet Mehmet and I work as a Coach, Counsellor, CBT Therapist and Hypnotherapist based in the City of London and online.
Thank you for visiting my website.
‘I don’t know of any problem that didn’t start out as a solution to something’
- Ahmet Mehmet
It may be that you are currently going through a challenging time in your life and the coping mechanisms that you may have always relied on are not as affective as they had previously been.
This is the time where people either continue to do the same thing and become frustrated as nothing is changing or they reach out and learn new ways to help them through their difficulties.
My method of working with clients is underpinned by neuroscience and understanding how our brains work and how this can help us to manage the challenges we face much more accurately and effectively.
One of the key strengths to my way of working is that I am able to rapidly identify and work with core issues that have been causing my clients difficulty and support them to make positive changes.
I have over 15 experience of supporting clients in many different ways ranging from Goal setting and achieving success in their Careers and Personal lives through to learning how to successfully manage Anxiety and Stress as well as issues around Self-confidence, Identity, Anger, Low mood and Depression and much more.
To find out how I can help you, feel free to get in touch via my contact page
Qualifications in Coaching & Therapy
•Diploma in Person Centered Counselling
•Certificate in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
•Certificate in Hypnotherapy
•NLP Master Practitioner
•Certificate in Mindfulness
•Certificate in Clinical Supervision
•Certificate in Reflective Practice
•Certificate in Critical Incident Behaviour
•Certificate in Coaching
Coaching & Therapy
Coach, Counsellor & Hypnotherapist in The City of London, Central London and Online
Counselling
Through my experience as a Counsellor I have come to understand the importance of creating an empowering relationship with my clients based on acceptance, non-judgement, compassion, honesty, empathy and understanding.
Through working with my clients, I have found that when these conditions are present within our therapeutic relationship it makes it possible for my clients to feel safe and secure enough to explore the issues and fears that are causing them distress and to move towards making changes.
I am trained and experienced in various therapeutic modalities that I can blend together to create a unique model of working depending on the needs of the client.
I work with both short-term solutions focussed therapy as well as longer term therapy.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is the psychotherapeutic approach that looks at the link between our thoughts, feelings and behaviour and how we are influenced by this interaction which then affects how we perceive ourselves, others and the world
CBT also acknowledges the role of underlying beliefs, often out of our awareness, which tend to be the ‘power house’ of our thoughts, feelings and behaviours and which are crucial when making therapeutic changes when using CBT.
By taking the time to bring into our awareness what it is we are thinking and uncovering our thought patterns which have become habitual over time it is possible to bring about therapeutic changes in any distortions in our beliefs and thought patterns which may be causing us distress.
I can support you to change the way you think about an event to enable you to change the way you feel about it and consequently change how you behave which results in achieving a more helpful outcome in any given situation.
I often tend to incorporate Mindfulness exercises alongside my CBT work as this supports my clients in being able to recognise unhelpful thought, feelings and behaviour patterns without becoming overwhelmed by them.
Coaching
The first question to ask yourself before embarking on your Coaching journey is ‘ What do I want’? Often this is where many people experience difficulty and for various reasons. I can support you to identify what it is you would like to gain through Coaching and to then work with you to formulate a plan to turn what it is you want into actionable steps for you to take in order to achieve your aim.
Because I have trained and worked as a Counsellor and Therapist for over 15 years, I am able to bring a deeper understanding to any issues that may be stopping you from reaching your potential and help you to overcome these along your Coaching journey.
Whatever it is you would like Coaching for I have been able to support hundreds of clients throughout my career to gain awareness and become empowered to identify their challenges, face them and make positive, life changing decisions.
Hypnotherapy and Neuro Linguistic Programming
All of my clients come to me at the stage where everything they have tried in order to solve their problem no longer works.
It may have been that what they were doing did at some point provide some relief from their difficulty but now what was once a solution has become the problem.
An example could be that as a teenager I decided to smoke to fit in with friends but now as an adult I no longer have that same need but I am experiencing health problems and am stuck with the habit. What we see here is how a solution has now become a problem.
I can help you to change unwanted habits and behaviours rapidly and effectively using the Psychotherapeutic approaches of Hypnotherapy and Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP).
By using the skills of Hypnotherapy it’s possible to make lasting therapeutic changes at a very deep unconscious level which then manifest on a conscious level and is experienced in changes in thoughts, feelings and behaviours.
By understanding how we structure and remember an experience through our senses it is possible to effect positive and lasting change through the use of NLP by cognitive restructuring of our experiences to be more in tune with who we are today.
Through my work as a Coach and Therapist here are just some of the areas/issues that I have successfully supported my clients with to create positive change in their lives:
•Goal setting
•Career change/Change management
•Smoking cessation
•Anxiety management
•Anxiety disorders
•Anger management
•Building Self-Confidence
•Depression
•Fear of public speaking
•Nail biting
•Over/under eating
•Phobias
•Relationship issues
•Sleep disturbance
•Stress management
•Unhelpful thought patterns
•And much more...
To find out if I may be able to support you and to answer any questions you might have please get in touch.
Supervision
Coach, Counsellor & Hypnotherapist in The City of London, Central London and Online
Supervision & Reflective Practice
I provide supervision and reflective practice to individual counsellors, groups and to those working in supporting professions such as mental health workers, substance misuse workers and those working with homeless and vulnerable clients.
Through supervision my supervisees are able to reflect on the work they carry out with clients and are able to identify how and when they are working effectively and also to recognise where there may be a need for further support for both clients and themselves.
By supporting my supervisees to develop more self-awareness they are able to progress as practitioners.
To find out more please do get in touch.
Mindfulness & Meditation
Coach, Counsellor & Hypnotherapist in The City of London, Central London and Online
“Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way; on purpose, in the present moment, and non- judgmentally." Jon Kabat-Zinn
My own interest and practice of Mindfulness has and continues to inform the way I work with my clients .
Many of the difficulties we face in our lives are generated due to us not experiencing situations from the person we are today but from who we were in the past.
This is because one of the ways our minds operate is that we take information from a present situation, try and make sense of it from past experiences and then project our past experience onto the current situation and possibly into future experiences.
As you can imagine this can lead to us accessing thoughts and emotions that can leave us feeling sad, anxious or depressed and feeling trapped between a seemingly difficult past and an uncertain future. However what does happen is that we are not present to what is actually taking place.
I work mindfully with my clients to enable them to develop greater self-awareness and self-control over their thoughts and emotions and to learn how to respond to situations rather than react to them.
Some of the areas I work with Mindfulness with clients are:
•Anxiety•Developing a deeper relationship with the self
•Smoking cessation
•Depression
•Stress Management
•Weight Management
•Changing unwanted habits
•Relaxation
Workshops
Workshops
As well as running a successful 1-2-1 practice I also provide training and workshops to organisations.
Here are just some of the companies and organizations I have delivered workshops and training for: Deloitte, The Department for Transport and HM Treasury, The Financial Reporting Council, Greenpeace, The NHS, Royal London, Rolls Royce, Siemens, Panasonic as well as various teams within the House of Commons.
I have also been involved in the creation, development and now ongoing delivery of bespoke workshops for Select Committees in the Houses of Parliament.
Here are the workshops I currently provide:
Stress Management
During this session you will learn:
•What stress is
•How it impacts us as individuals
•Causes of stress
•How to identify the signs and symptoms of stress
•Ways of managing stress more effectively
Mindfulness
During this session you will learn:
•What Mindfulness is
•How it can support us through difficult times
•The positive impact of regular Mindfulness practice
•Three Mindfulness practices to incorporate into your everyday life
Change Management
During this session you will learn:
•About the impact of change on individuals
•How to identify common reactions to change
•Understanding how to implement change in organisations
•How to support teams through a process of change
Mental Health Awareness for Managers, Leaders and their Teams
During this session you will learn:
•About common mental health problems
•How to understand the barriers for individuals talking about mental health
•Common signs to look for in individuals who are experiencing mental health difficulties
•How to support individuals who are experiencing mental health difficulties
Understanding & Managing Trauma
During this session you will:
•Understand what the different types of Trauma
•Understand the ways in which people experience Trauma
•Understand how to recognise the signs and symptoms of Trauma
•Have ways to manage Trauma and signposting for further support
Each of the sessions are run for two hours making them easy to fit into the working day.
The workshops can be booked on an individual basis or can be booked as a half day (two sessions) or whole day (four sessions).
Whilst each of the sessions have a standard format the session can be tailored to reflect the specific needs of your organisation.
For prices and a free consultation to discover what may be the best session for your company please get in touch via my contact page.
Testimonials
Change Management Workshop
This is just a quick note to say that yesterday’s training session was really useful and very much enjoyed by the team – huge thanks to Ahmet!
Stress Management Workshop
Dear Ahmet,
Thank you very much for your precious time to hold sessions. Our employees are very happy about the sessions and I have received lots of feedback which they found your sessions excellent and very useful. Personally I am glad I have attended your sessions as now I understand what happens to my mind, even to my brain when I get angry or upset! It is good to know what is happening to my body and mind so that I can handle it better.
Mindfulness Training Workshop
Ahmet Mehmet provided a Mindfulness Workshop to the European HR team at our recent offsite, which had a wellbeing theme.
The workshop was engaging and informative as well as offering practical exercises to use and take away.
It inspired good discussion amongst participants which helped the team to gain a better insight into the possible wellbeing benefits to employees of providing such activities in the workplace, as well as providing space and personal time-out to a very tired senior HR team! It was a great foundation to our understanding as an HR team of what ‘mindfulness’ can achieve in terms of workforce wellbeing and resilience.
Thank you Ahmet!
Mental Health Awareness Workshop
Since the training, there have been lots of conversations – and staff have been opening up both to management and each other about difficulties and sharing things with us that they weren’t previously.
I was in the first session myself, and not only found the session really helpful personally- but saw that it has opened a door that I believe was previously closed within our office.
When I asked Sammy to source training around mental health, I really felt it would be well received within the business, but it has had a greater impact that even I could have imagined.
The feedback has been overwhelmingly positive, and staff were genuinely grateful to have received it. You also made it accessible to everyone and ensured some quite complex elements were very easy to understand
Thank you once again
Mental Health Awareness workshop - 2023
Today we had Ahmet delivering the Mental Health Awareness workshop and I would like to pass on our very positive feedback as he was incredibly knowledgeable, personable and engaging.Everyone really enjoyed the session, it was very valuable and Ahmet was very professional in helping our staff connect the content of the session to our business and to them personally.
Fees
Coach, Counsellor & Hypnotherapist in The City of London, Central London and Online
Contact
Coach, Counsellor & Hypnotherapist in The City of London, Central London and Online
I am available in the E16 area and also work online
To get in touch please contact me on the details below: I provide counselling from the following locations: 137-149 Goswell road, London EC1V 7ET