About Canse
Canse Karatas (MBACP) describes a long-standing commitment to mental health and personal growth. She is a counsellor with a BA (Hons) in Psychology and a Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy, and she is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
Canse writes plainly about wanting to help people move from surviving to living more fully, and she invites a calm, respectful conversation about what feels overwhelming or stuck.
How Canse works
She has built a practice from many years working across community mental health services, inpatient settings and crisis intervention. That experience includes time in a therapeutic community alongside people diagnosed with complex presentations. Over more than a decade Canse has seen shifts that give her confidence in slow, steady progress.
Her approach is integrative and human-centred. She draws on psychodynamic ideas about early attachment and relational patterns, client-centred listening to prioritise each person’s experience, and mindfulness techniques to help with grounding and emotional regulation. Trauma-focused methods are part of the work when painful events need careful attention.
Canse describes her style as warm, curious and practical. Sessions aim to break problems into manageable steps, build skills for coping, and explore repetitive patterns that keep people stuck. She also uses creative ways of working when they suit the person.
She has been involved in mental health awareness projects and written about wellbeing for wider audiences. English is her first language and she is based in the United Kingdom, offering remote sessions to people both locally and internationally.
Canse lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Canse works with
The areas below are the ones Canse selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. It looks at how people connect, cope with loss or separation, and repeat familiar ways of relating that can cause distress. Client-centred therapy emphasises careful listening and acceptance. It gives space for the person to lead, helping them feel heard and to discover their own answers through reflection and support.Finding the right approach is often part of the early work. The counsellor will discuss what feels most helpful and shape the way forward together. That means checking goals, trying methods, and adjusting based on what helps the client feel more settled and able to make changes.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more accessible. Video is useful for deeper conversational work, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat and messaging suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer not to use audio or video. These formats allow flexible scheduling around work, study or daily life while maintaining continuity of support.
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