About Carla
Carla Baker is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with 14 years of professional experience. She holds a qualification in Integrative Psychotherapeutic Counselling and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). Her background includes postgraduate study in attachment, trauma and mental health across the lifespan.
Carla focuses on helping people who are struggling with stress and anxiety. She also supports those facing relationship difficulties, family conflict, trauma and abuse, and issues around self-esteem and grief.
Background and approach
She works with people on intimacy-related concerns, sleep problems and parenting stress. Her approach is adaptable and person-focused. She tailors conversations and plans to the needs and goals of each individual.
Sessions aim to help people understand patterns, manage symptoms, and try practical ways of coping. Carla uses a mix of approaches including attachment-based work, client-centred counselling, cognitive behavioural ideas, dialectical behaviour techniques and hypnotherapy. She will explain therapies in plain terms and decide on what to use together with the client.
People who choose Carla can expect a respectful, sensitive and compassionate style. She emphasises honesty and collaboration and supports clients as they take steps towards a more fulfilling life.
Approaches that translate to online therapy
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape how we connect now and helps with relationship strain, abandonment worries and attachment concerns. Client-centred counselling focuses on an open, non-judgemental conversation and helps people clarify goals, build self-esteem and feel heard. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings and behaviours and offers practical exercises to reduce anxiety and improve mood.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Carla will work together with each person to find what feels most helpful, combining elements from different methods when needed. The decision is guided by the client's goals, symptoms and personal preferences rather than a fixed plan.
Online therapy gives flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video sessions let you see and hear the counsellor for a fuller exchange, phone calls use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break, live chat suits short check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around daily life and maintain momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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