About Carla
Carla Baker is a counsellor with 14 years of professional experience based in the United Kingdom. She holds a BACP registration and trained in integrative psychotherapeutic counselling. She offers steady, calm support to people facing stress, anxiety, relationship turmoil and trauma.
Her approach is practical and person-focused. Sessions are shaped around each person’s needs and values. She brings experience helping with family conflict, grief, self-esteem and intimacy-related concerns.
Parenting strain, sleeping problems and career stress are also areas she addresses.
Background and approach
Carla draws on somatic ways of working to help people reconnect with body sensations and emotions. She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships affect current patterns. Client-centred listening and elements of cognitive behavioural work and dialectical skills are woven into sessions when helpful.
She has postgraduate study in attachment, trauma and mental health across the lifespan. That background informs how she plans conversations and supports people through difficult experiences. Her practice includes attention to complex topics such as abandonment, adoption and foster care, and caregiving stress.
Carla aims to create a respectful and sensitive space. She matches pace to each person and adapts techniques to suit what feels safest. The goal is clearer understanding, steadier coping and more satisfying connections in everyday life.
How Carla blends approaches for online work
Carla uses somatic-informed methods to help people become aware of physical sensations linked to emotion. This can make feelings easier to name and manage when stress or trauma feels overwhelming.She also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at relationship patterns and how early bonds shape current behaviour. That helps when the main concerns are intimacy, abandonment or repeated conflict. Client-centred therapy is central to her way of working - listening without judgement and shaping sessions around each person’s priorities.
Deciding which approach to use is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the person about their goals, past experiences and what feels most comfortable. Together they test methods and adapt as trust grows and needs change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. These options give flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. People can choose more verbal sessions on video or quieter, written contact by message, depending on what helps them engage and make progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- 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
- Licensed
- Languages
- English