About Arben
Arben "Ben" Delija uses an integrative approach that places the client at the centre of sessions. He brings together client-centred ideas with cognitive and behaviour-focused tools to help people manage stress, anxiety and addiction-related concerns. Ben works in English and Albanian and practices from the United Kingdom.
Ben draws on five years of counselling experience alongside a longer background working in addiction services. He has supported people with drug and alcohol issues using harm reduction, group work and one-to-one sessions.
Background and approach
He also helps with depression, low self-esteem, bereavement and childhood trauma. In sessions he listens first to understand each person's priorities. Then he offers practical strategies from cognitive behavioural work to reduce worrying thoughts and change unhelpful patterns.
He also uses client-centred ways of working to build trust and explore feelings at the client’s pace. For people whose emotions feel overwhelming, he can bring in skills from dialectical behaviour therapy to manage distress and improve emotional regulation. Motivational interviewing is used when someone wants to make a change but feels stuck or unsure how to begin.
Ben holds BACP and NCPS credentials and describes his approach as tailored and collaborative. His practice pays attention to common life challenges including relationship and family tensions, coping with grief, and career transitions. He aims to help people find clearer steps forward and feel steadier day to day.
Integrative approaches for online counselling
Arben combines client-centred work with cognitive behavioural techniques to help people tackle worry, low mood and unhelpful thinking patterns. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so the person feels understood, while cognitive behavioural approaches teach practical steps to change thinking and behaviour that maintain anxiety and stress.He also uses elements of dialectical behaviour therapy to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills. These tools can be especially useful when feelings feel intense or when someone needs concrete techniques to manage strong reactions.
Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will start by hearing what matters most, then suggest ways of working that fit a person’s goals and preferences. Together they review what helps and adapt the plan over time.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video is good for a fuller conversation and visual cues, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, chat can suit shorter check-ins, and messaging lets someone reflect between sessions. These options help fit therapy around work, travel and daily life while keeping the focus on practical change and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Albanian
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