Borbala (Bee) Shehata-Jakab, BACP, NCPS

Borbala (Bee) Shehata-Jakab BACP NCPS has five years' experience working with adults in the United Kingdom. She is an integrative counsellor who blends several therapeutic approaches to help people with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, identity and parenting issues. Sessions are offered in English and Hungarian.

Bee describes her work as a practical, relational process. She focuses on identity and personality in the context of relationships. This includes exploring how difficulty expressing identity can lead to shame, low self-esteem or anger and learning ways to respond differently.

Her integrative stance means she draws from several evidence-informed approaches. She uses elements from cognitive behavioural therapy to look at thinking and behaviour, attachment-based ideas to consider relational patterns, and client-centred ways of working to prioritise the person's experience. These approaches are used together rather than as separate steps.

She sometimes offers creative techniques such as dreamwork, chair work, therapeutic journaling and work with images and symbols. These are optional tools used to deepen reflection or to try different ways of working with difficult feelings.

Borbala supports people with a broad range of concerns including grief, trauma and abuse, LGBT matters, self-esteem, career and coping with life changes. She also notes additional focus areas such as abandonment, caregiver stress, communication problems and blended family issues.

Her way of working emphasises a collaborative relationship. The counsellor and the person work together to identify helpful steps and build practical coping skills alongside reflective exploration.

How her approaches translate to online counselling