About Atakan
Atakan Karakas is a counsellor who draws on a mix of practical therapies to help people facing anxiety and stress. She works in English and Turkish and brings seven years of experience to sessions. She aims to make the first step easier for anyone who feels unsure about starting therapy.
Atakan believes clients know their own stories and strengths. She listens carefully and helps people use what already works for them.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear, achievable steps rather than jargon or long lectures. Her approach combines behavioural tools and values-based work. That means learning skills to manage difficult thoughts, then choosing small actions that match what matters to the client.
Attachment-based ideas are used when relationships and trust are part of the problem. Atakan also draws on client-centred and dialectical strategies to keep sessions calm and practical. These methods help with mood problems, grief, relationship concerns, and recurring patterns such as avoidance or anger.
She adapts techniques to the person in front of her rather than following a one-size-fits-all plan. People come for help with sleep, eating, focus, addiction, parenting strain, identity questions, and life transitions. Her background includes working across many issues, so sessions often mix short-term coping skills with longer-term attention to meaning and values.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and can then arrange sessions that suit their schedule. Atakan works with international clients and uses a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and then take small actions that fit their values. It can be useful for anxiety, low mood and when life feels stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying patterns of thinking and behaviour and trying practical experiments to change them. CBT often helps with sleep, worry, habits and mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The counsellor will discuss what feels most relevant and try methods collaboratively. Clients often mix techniques so sessions can be skills-focused one week and more reflective the next.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video is good for a full conversation and non-verbal cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging suit quick reflections, ongoing check-ins or when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work across timezones for international clients.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Turkish
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