About Gulsan
Gulsan Abubakar Karbani uses a person-centred approach to help people navigate difficult life issues. She combines practical therapies with steady listening to help people make changes that matter. Gulsan works in English, Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu and has many years of experience in the United Kingdom.
She supports people facing stress and anxiety, grief and loss, depression and anger. She also helps with relationship and family tensions, intimacy concerns, parenting strain and eating or body image worries.
How Gulsan works
Her work includes support for those coping with chronic illness, caregiving stress and major life changes. Gulsan draws on approaches such as cognitive behavioural techniques, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-based work and emotionally focused methods. Sessions aim to help people notice patterns, try practical strategies and build on personal strengths.
The focus is on what the person wants to change and how to get there. Her method is collaborative and down to earth. She listens first, then suggests ideas you can test between sessions.
People can expect clear aims and straightforward tools rather than jargon. Gulsan holds NCPS as a credential and brings 37 years of practice to her work. Her experience means she has supported people through grief, separation, commitment doubts and recovery from abuse and trauma.
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging for flexible access.
Gulsan lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Gulsan works with
The areas below are the ones Gulsan selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 37 |
| Languages | English, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How these approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify their values and take small committed steps toward a life they care about. It suits issues like anxiety, depression and coping with major life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviours to reduce symptoms such as anxiety and low mood. Emotionally-Focused Therapy targets patterns in close relationships and helps people notice and shift emotional responses that keep problems repeating.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss your goals and preferences and together decide which methods to try. That collaborative process means techniques can be adapted as trust grows and new priorities emerge.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat and text messaging so people can choose what fits their routine. Video calls allow fuller interaction and visual cues, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, and text-based messaging or chat can suit short check-ins or flexible scheduling. These options make it easier to keep therapy going around work, caregiving or travel commitments.
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