Canse Karatas (MBACP), BACP

Canse Karatas (MBACP) is a UK-based therapist who combines professional training with a personal commitment to growth and healing. With 12 years of experience across community mental health services, inpatient units and crisis intervention, she supports people who feel overwhelmed, stuck or numb and those carrying painful chapters they find hard to speak about. Canse has worked in a Therapeutic Community with a DBT focus supporting women with personality disorder and dissociative identity presentations, and she draws on that experience when working with trauma, relationship difficulties, mood disorders and complex presentations.

Her practice is informed by an integrative stance that weaves humanistic, relational, psychodynamic and creative ways of working, offering depth alongside genuine empathy. She emphasises practical steps to make feelings and goals more manageable, helping clients confront fears, process emotions and pursue meaningful change. Canse also brings wider industry involvement to her work - organising mental health awareness events, contributing articles to global outlets such as Brainz, and collaborating on international projects that keep her connected with peers.

Canse is a member of the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP), the professional body that supports ethical standards and good practice in counselling and psychotherapy. She is committed to ongoing professional development and personal reflection, and she responds to messages within 24-48 hours on weekdays to help prospective clients take the next step toward therapy.

Therapeutic approaches and online support

Canse draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to explore how early relationships influence current patterns of relating and emotional safety - this approach helps when issues include attachment difficulties, relationship struggles or feelings of abandonment. She also uses Trauma-Focused Therapy to carefully address and process experiences of abuse, dissociation or other traumatic events, aiming to reduce the ways past trauma impacts day-to-day functioning. In addition, Client-Centered Therapy underpins her work by prioritising the client's perspective, offering a non-judgemental, empathic stance that supports self-exploration and personal growth.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic journey and Canse works collaboratively with each person to identify methods that match their needs, goals and preferences. Registered professionals and therapists often blend approaches, and Canse will discuss options so the client and therapist can decide together what feels most helpful.

Online therapy makes this collaborative work more flexible - sessions can take place by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different schedules and comfort levels. For many people, remote options increase accessibility and make it easier to maintain consistent support while balancing daily life.