Carla Baker

Carla Baker is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with 14 years of professional experience. She holds an Integrative Psychotherapeutic Counselling qualification and is registered with the BACP. Carla focuses on helping people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, relationship and family difficulties, trauma and abuse, and anger. She describes her work as respectful, sensitive and compassionate, and she aims to tailor conversations and plans to each person’s needs.

Carla draws on several approaches to shape sessions, including attachment-based work, cognitive behavioural techniques and client-centred ways of talking. She uses these methods to help people understand unhelpful patterns, learn clearer ways to cope, and change how they respond to difficult situations. Sessions are collaborative and paced to suit the individual.

Her background includes a postgraduate qualification in attachment, trauma and mental health that covers children, young people and adults. That study informs how she thinks about relationship patterns and the impact of early experiences on current struggles. She also has experience supporting people through grief, intimacy-related concerns, parenting strains and career stress.

Carla can work with topics such as self-esteem, sleep problems, chronic health concerns and communication problems. She also offers help around issues linked to adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, body image and commitment or control difficulties. Her approach aims to keep therapy practical and focused on the changes people want to make.

Carla accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English. To begin, people use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule according to the therapist’s availability.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Carla uses attachment-based and cognitive behavioural approaches alongside client-centred work. Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people understand why they react the way they do in close relationships. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) looks at the connections between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and teaches practical tools to change unhelpful thinking and coping habits. Client-centred work gives people space to be heard and to make choices about what to focus on in sessions.

Finding the right mix is part of the process. Carla will work with each person to decide which approaches fit their needs, goals and preferences. That choice is made together, and may change as progress is made or new priorities emerge.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm available options before booking. Online counselling can make it easier to fit sessions around daily life, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It also makes it possible for international clients to work with a UK-based therapist without needing to travel. Registered or accredited professionals and therapists commonly adapt exercises, worksheets and grounding techniques for remote sessions so that practical work continues between appointments.