Serife Erten, ACA, PACFA

Serife Erten is a credentialed mental health professional based in Australia with 28 years of clinical experience. Over her career she has worked across private practice, community mental health, education, and trauma-focused services, bringing a broad perspective to the needs people bring to therapy.

Her work is characterised by a compassionate, respectful stance that aims to tailor support to each person or couple. She adopts a holistic view that recognises the connections between mind, body, and emotional wellbeing, and she collaborates with clients to design goals and strategies that fit their values and pace.

Serife supports people facing stress, anxiety, relationship and family difficulties, low self-esteem, grief and loss, emotional regulation challenges, and major life transitions. She also has extensive experience with trauma and long-term mental health conditions, and she works with issues including parenting, career concerns, ADHD, chronic pain and illness, hoarding, obsessions and compulsions, phobias, post-traumatic stress, and first responder issues.

Her practice draws on evidence-based approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Narrative Therapy, and Solution-Focused Therapy. Sessions are client-centred and collaborative, intended to help clients build insight, practical coping skills, and meaningful change while moving at a pace that feels right for them. Serife holds professional credentials with ACA and PACFA and offers services in English and Turkish.