Gulsan Abubakar Karbani, NCPS

Gulsan Abubakar Karbani is a counsellor with NCPS and more than 37 years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She offers calm, practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strains and grief. She works in plain language and helps people build on their own strengths to manage everyday challenges and habits related to thoughts and daily routines.

Her approach is collaborative and straightforward. She believes each person knows their story best and helps them notice unhelpful thinking and habits. Sessions focus on small, workable changes that make day-to-day life easier and more manageable.

Gulsan draws on a mix of approaches to suit different needs. She uses techniques from cognitive behavioural work and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to address anxious or depressive thinking. Attachment-based ideas and emotionally-focused methods shape how she looks at relationship and intimacy concerns.

She supports people with a wide range of issues including parenting strain, family conflict, eating concerns, anger and coping with life changes. Additional focus areas in her practice include abandonment, attachment issues, body image and chronic illness among others. Conversations are aimed at practical coping, clearer communication and rebuilding confidence.

Sessions are offered in English, Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu, and she accepts international clients. If you want to begin, follow the site process to match with her and schedule a time that fits your life.

Online work using practical approaches

Gulsan uses cognitive behavioural ideas and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people change unhelpful thinking and daily habits. Cognitive behavioural approaches look at how thoughts, feelings and actions link together and use simple exercises to alter patterns that cause distress. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on noticing thoughts without getting hooked by them and identifying values-based actions to move forward.

Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The counsellor will work with the client to decide which ideas and techniques fit their goals and preferences. That collaborative process means methods can be adjusted over time as needs and priorities change.

The original biography does not list specific session formats, so please confirm available options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life by removing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins when needed, and letting sessions land around work or family commitments. It also makes it possible for people to work with a counsellor who speaks English, Hindi, Punjabi or Urdu even if they live outside the UK.