Carla Baker, BACP

Carla Baker is a counsellor registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) with 14 years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She trained in integrative psychotherapeutic counselling and holds a postgraduate qualification in attachment, trauma and mental health across the lifespan. Carla lists stress, anxiety, relationship and family difficulties, trauma and abuse, self-esteem and anger among the issues she helps people with.

Carla works in a direct, practical way. Sessions focus on what the person is struggling with now and on small, doable changes that reduce pressure. She blends conversational listening with structured tools so people learn ways to manage distressing thoughts and reactions.

Her approach draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current responses. She also uses client-centred methods to keep the work collaborative and grounded in the person's experience. Cognitive behavioural techniques and elements of dialectical behaviour therapy are used to address unhelpful thinking and to build emotion regulation skills.

Carla has experience across diverse concerns including grief, intimacy-related problems, sleeping difficulties, parenting questions, career stress and depression. She also lists additional focuses such as attachment issues, blended family dynamics, caregiving stress and chronic health challenges. Those practical strands inform her sessions when relevant.

If someone wants to explore coaching-style support, Carla includes that within her work alongside therapy. International clients may be accepted and sessions are offered in English. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule an initial session.

Working online with attachment, CBT and DBT approaches