About Abolanle
Abolanle (Bola) Aloluwaloba offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by life. She meets each person where they are and helps them make sense of anxious thoughts, stress, low self-worth and big life changes. Bola works in English and Yoruba and draws on five years of counselling experience to guide conversations at a pace that suits the client.
Sessions start with what matters most to the client. Bola uses a client-centred way of working, which means she listens closely and follows what the person brings to the room.
Background and approach
She also uses tools from cognitive behavioural approaches to help notice unhelpful thinking and from acceptance and commitment methods to focus on values and small, steady changes. Many who come to her talk about anxiety, grief, relationship strain, parenting pressures, addiction concerns, or difficulties with sleep and eating.
She also supports people dealing with trauma, career stress, and feelings of emptiness or abandonment. Conversations often cover practical coping skills as well as longer-term patterns rooted in attachment and family of origin. Bola believes therapy is collaborative.
She helps people identify strengths and then builds steps that feel manageable. The work can be direct at times and gentle at others, depending on what a person needs. Her stated aim is to help people gain clarity and trust their own resources.
Over time clients often notice better emotional balance and clearer choices about relationships, work and everyday life.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and focus on values and small actions that matter. It is useful for anxiety, stress and difficulties that come with major life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, known as CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and gives clear tools for changing patterns that make life harder.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Bola listens to what the client wants and recommends methods that match those goals. She treats therapy as a collaboration and adjusts techniques as progress is made or needs change.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video allows for a fuller face-to-face conversation while phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments while keeping the focus on steady, practical progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Hypnotherapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Yoruba
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