About Gulsan
Gulsan Abubakar Karbani uses a blend of practical talking therapies to help people manage anxiety and stress. She works from a straightforward, respectful stance and encourages clients to draw on their own strengths. Gulsan names the client as the expert of their story and offers steady support through difficult changes.
Gulsan has 37 years of experience in the United Kingdom and holds NCPS. She has helped people cope with grief, relationship strain, family conflict and low self-esteem.
Background and approach
Her work also covers trauma and abuse, anger, eating concerns and the emotional fall-out of illness and ageing. Her approach mixes Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Attachment-Based ideas. Sessions aim to clarify what matters to the person, identify unhelpful patterns and practise new, manageable ways of thinking and behaving.
Gulsan keeps explanations plain and offers simple, step-by-step activities people can try between sessions. People meet her for short-term, focused work or longer conversations about life changes. She can support someone dealing with separation, caregiving strain, chronic health problems or the ripple effects of bereavement.
Gulsan also discusses body image, commitment worries and communication difficulties. Sessions are offered in English, Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu. Her style is calm and patient, and she helps clients plan realistic next steps.
Gulsan invites people to take the first step and offers help steadying that change.
Therapeutic approaches suited to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being led by them, and then take small steps towards what matters. It can be useful for anxiety, stress and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy focuses on how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact; practical tasks and short experiments are used to reduce worry and shift routine patterns.Gulsan sees choosing an approach as a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about their goals and try different methods to find what fits. The aim is to match practical tools to a person's needs rather than use a single fixed method.
Online sessions can be held by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and guided exercises. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging can be used for brief check-ins, written reflections or flexible support between talks, making therapy easier to fit around work and caring duties.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 37 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu
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