Atakan Karakas, NCPS
7 years in practice
Atakan Karakas is a counsellor who offers a warm, person-focused approach to emotional and life challenges.
License and registration
- NCPS
- NCS21-02871 · expires January 2027
- Years in practice
- 7
- Languages
- English, Turkish
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the registration with the body that granted it.
About Atakan
Atakan Karakas is a counsellor who offers a warm, person-focused approach to emotional and life challenges. She believes people know their own story best and brings practical support to help them move forward. Her style is straightforward and respectful, aimed at making the first step easier for anyone nervous about starting therapy.
With seven years of experience, she draws on Existential therapy to look at meaning, choice and personal responsibility in a person’s life.
Background and approach
She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based ideas when helpful, tailoring the way she works to each person’s needs. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with space to reflect and try new ways of coping. Atakan helps with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, grief, depression and relationship difficulties.
She also supports people managing addiction, ADHD, eating and sleeping problems, caregiver strain and life transitions. Additional foci include attachment issues, body image, chronic illness and communication problems. She holds the NCPS credential and works from the United Kingdom.
Sessions are offered in English and Turkish, and she accepts international clients. Practical formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different schedules and preferences. Starting is straightforward: follow the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a time.
The subscription model can be cancelled at any time and session pricing varies by location and therapist availability.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Atakan lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- 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
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Atakan names
- Existential Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Existential Therapy looks at meaning, choice and responsibility in everyday life. Online sessions can use conversation to clarify values and life priorities, helping people face difficult decisions or transitions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, and then taking action that matches personal values. It can help with anxiety, low mood and coping with change through practical exercises and behavioural experiments. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to patterns in close relationships and childhood experiences, and it helps people build different ways of connecting and communicating.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and try methods that fit goals and preferences, adjusting over time in collaboration with the client. That way sessions stay relevant and practical rather than theoretical.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy lives or limited mobility. Video calls let the therapist and client meet face to face, phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is low or you prefer not to use video, and live chat or text-based messaging suits quick check-ins or those who find writing easier. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy into work breaks, travel or different time zones and support international clients.
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Questions people ask
What issues does this counsellor address?
She supports people with stress, anxiety, depression, grief and relationship challenges, and also helps with ADHD, addictions and eating or sleeping difficulties.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
The approach is conversational and person-centred, drawing on Existential ideas about meaning alongside practical ACT and attachment-informed techniques.
What experience does she bring?
She has seven years of professional experience working with a range of emotional and life concerns.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is listed with the NCPS and is based in the United Kingdom.
In which languages can sessions be held?
Sessions are offered in English and Turkish for clients in the UK and internationally.
Which session formats are available?
Sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How are sessions paid for and what do they cost?
Sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time; exact fees vary with location and therapist availability.
How do I begin working with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions based on the therapist's availability.
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