Gulsan Abubakar Karbani
Experienced therapist helping rebuild confidence
About Gulsan
Gulsan Abubakar Karbani works with adults to address stress, anxiety and relationship difficulties. She brings practical, steady support for people facing grief, low self-esteem and life changes. Her approach is direct and respectful, with simple tools people can use between sessions.
With 37 years of practice, she draws on several well-known counselling methods. These include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Attachment-Based approaches. She adapts techniques to suit each person's concerns rather than using one fixed method.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on helping people notice what matters to them and take small, manageable steps. Conversations often include thinking exercises, emotional awareness and clearer communication skills. The aim is to reduce unhelpful patterns and build actions that match personal values.
Gulsan also supports people dealing with trauma, intimacy-related worries, eating concerns and parenting strain. She has worked with issues such as chronic illness, caregiving stress, bereavement and separation. Her experience covers a wide range of emotional and practical problems that can follow major life events.
She offers sessions in English, Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu and is based in the United Kingdom. People interested in working together start by completing a short matching questionnaire and arranging sessions that fit their schedule.
What Gulsan works with
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online delivery
Gulsan commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in her work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions that match their values, which can be useful for anxiety, low mood and life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and teaches practical strategies to reduce distress and change unhelpful thinking patterns.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will review your concerns and preferences and discuss which methods might suit you best. Together you can try different techniques and focus on what feels most helpful for your goals.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face discussion when that is useful, while phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins, quick updates or people who prefer writing. These choices make it easier to fit sessions around work, care duties or travel, and help maintain continuity when life circumstances change.
| 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
- 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-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural 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
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu
