Carla Baker
Compassionate counsellor with 14 years' experience
About Carla
Carla Baker brings 14 years of professional experience to her counselling practice in the United Kingdom. She holds a qualification in Integrative Psychotherapeutic Counselling and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). Carla writes plainly and directly, and she focuses on making the first contact feel manageable for someone who is worried or unsure.
Her background includes a postgraduate qualification in attachment, trauma and mental health across the lifespan.
Background and approach
Carla helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, grief and intimacy-related difficulties. She also supports people facing sleeping problems, anger, career decisions, parenting strains and coping with life changes. Carla draws on a mix of approaches to match the work to each person.
She uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. She also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to work on thoughts and behaviours that maintain distress, and client-centred methods to keep the pace led by the person in front of her. Her style is respectful and sensitive, with a practical focus.
Sessions aim to create space to talk, try new ways of responding, and build skills for daily life. Carla tailors the pace and plan to each person’s situation and goals. People who choose Carla often want straightforward help with specific concerns such as parenting pressures, grief, long-term health challenges, or issues linked to identity and belonging.
She accepts clients from the UK and internationally and works in English.
What Carla works with
How Carla works
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Sessions & fees
Approaches that guide online therapy
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships affect present-day patterns. It helps people understand repeated difficulties in relationships and find new ways to connect. Client-centred counselling places the person’s experience at the centre and follows their pace; it is useful for building self-understanding and feeling heard. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviours and is often used for anxiety, low mood and sleep problems.Choosing the right approach is usually a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options, try methods that fit the person's goals, and adjust the plan as progress is made. Clients are encouraged to feed back about what helps so the work remains practical and relevant.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared visual cues. Phone sessions can be useful when a shorter check-in is needed or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer writing, need frequent brief contact, or want to fit sessions around a busy day. Many registered or accredited professionals find these formats make therapy easier to arrange without changing the core therapeutic work.
| 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
- 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
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
