Atakan Karakas
Collaborative counsellor using practical psychological approaches
About Atakan
Atakan Karakas is a counsellor who draws on collaborative, evidence-informed approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety and life transitions. She works in English and Turkish and brings seven years of professional experience to her practice in the United Kingdom. Her style is straightforward and respectful, aimed at making hard conversations easier to start.
She believes people know their own lives best and uses that as a starting point. Sessions focus on small, practical steps that fit into everyday routines.
Background and approach
Techniques are chosen to match the person's goals, whether that means managing mood, coping with grief, or addressing addictive patterns. CBT, or cognitive behavioural therapy, is used to notice and change unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify values and take meaningful actions even when feelings are difficult.
Attachment-based ideas are brought in when early relationships affect current patterns. Work can include short-term coping strategies and longer conversations about identity, relationships and career direction. Atakan also supports people facing parenting challenges, sleep and eating concerns, and compassion fatigue related to caregiving roles.
She is comfortable discussing a wide range of issues including trauma, ADHD, bipolar and depression. People can expect a calm, practical approach that balances listening with concrete tools. The aim is to make therapy useful in day-to-day life, not just something that happens in a session.
What Atakan works with
How Atakan works
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Listed by Atakan among the ways they work.
Listed by Atakan among the ways they work.
Listed by Atakan among the ways they work.
Listed by Atakan among the ways they work.
Listed by Atakan among the ways they work.
Sessions & fees
Online approaches that fit your day
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people identify what matters most to them and take steps towards those values even when emotions are hard. It is useful for anxiety, depression and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, focuses on noticing thoughts and behaviours that keep problems going and teaches practical strategies to change them. It often helps with anxiety, low mood and sleep problems. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current habits and communication, and it can be helpful when relationship patterns or intimacy issues are a concern.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and then suggest methods to try. That decision is shared, and sessions are adjusted as needs evolve so the person stays in control of the direction.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation while avoiding travel time. Phone sessions work well if internet bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for people who prefer writing or who want extra flexibility to fit therapy into a busy day. These options make it easier to maintain continuity and build momentum without rearranging a whole schedule.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
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 counselling
- 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
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English, Turkish
