About Atakan
Atakan Karakas is a counsellor who uses practical, evidence-based approaches to help people manage anxiety, phobias and life changes. She works in English and Turkish and has seven years of professional experience. She views each person as the expert on their own life and builds on their existing strengths.
Her style is warm and straightforward. She helps people name what feels difficult, try small changes, and notice what works. Sessions are a chance to talk things through and practise new ways of coping without pressure.
Background and approach
Atakan draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address anxious thoughts and unhelpful behaviour patterns. She also uses Attachment-Based and Client-Centred ideas to explore how past relationships shape present reactions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques are used when emotion regulation skills are needed.
She supports a wide range of concerns, including stress, grief, career questions, compassion fatigue, ADHD, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, eating and sleeping problems, anger, self-esteem, bipolar and depression. Additional focus areas include abandonment, attachment issues, autism and Asperger Syndrome, chronic illness, caregiver stress and body image concerns.
Sessions are offered online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging so people can choose what fits their life. Atakan works with international clients and aims to create a clear plan with achievable steps. She holds NCPS as her listed credential.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online work
Atakan commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people change how they relate to thoughts and feelings. ACT focuses on values and taking meaningful steps even when feelings are hard, which can suit people struggling with anxiety or avoidance. CBT looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions and helps people practise alternative responses to reduce distress.She also draws on Attachment-Based and Client-Centred ideas to understand how early relationships affect current patterns. These approaches create space to talk about relationship dynamics and develop more helpful ways of connecting with oneself and others. Together, these methods offer skills for emotion regulation and clearer decision making.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and will be decided together. The therapist will ask about goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t helped before, then tailor techniques to fit each person’s needs. This collaborative planning means approaches can be adjusted over time as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls let people work face to face across distances, phone sessions need less bandwidth, live chat can be used for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life or travel while keeping the focus on practical steps and skill building.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Turkish
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