Carla Baker, BACP

Carla Baker is a counsellor who has practised in England for 14 years. She holds a BACP credential and completed postgraduate study in attachment, trauma and mental health across the lifespan. Carla focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety and life transitions. She also supports those facing relationship and family difficulties and the effects of trauma and abuse.

Her work is practical and conversational. Sessions are shaped around each person’s needs rather than a one-size-fits-all plan. She aims to offer respect, sensitivity and a calm space to talk things through. Carla will help set goals and review progress together.

Carla draws on approaches that include attachment-based work, client-centred ways of relating, cognitive behavioural techniques and elements of dialectical behaviour therapy. She also uses hypnotherapy when it seems helpful. These tools are used to address emotional regulation, relationship patterns and unhelpful thinking.

People contact her for a wide range of concerns such as grief, low self-esteem, intimacy and sleeping problems. She also works with parenting stress, caregiver strain and ageing and geriatric issues as part of her practice focus. Additional topics include adoption and foster care, chronic illness and body image.

Carla welcomes international clients and runs sessions from the United Kingdom. She asks people to pick the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule a session according to availability.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online work

Attachment-based work looks at how early bonds affect present relationships. It helps people understand patterns in close connections and build different ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them against reality. It is useful for anxiety, depression and everyday stress by teaching practical skills to shift thinking and behaviour.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. The therapist will collaborate with the person to choose methods that suit their needs, goals and preferences. That might mean trying CBT skills for a while, then using attachment-based ideas to explore relationship patterns, or combining techniques over time.

Online therapy can make fitting sessions into a busy life easier. It can reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins during a lunch break or an evening after work. Because the biography does not list specific session formats, confirm the available options before booking. Registered or accredited professionals often work with mixed approaches online, and sessions can focus on practical skill-building, exploring relationship patterns, or guided techniques such as hypnotherapy when appropriate. The emphasis is on finding a working rhythm that matches everyday routines rather than on a particular delivery method.