About Benedicta
Benedicta Okoli is a BACP counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with nine years of professional experience. She helps people facing anxiety, depression and relationship problems. Benedicta also supports those coping with trauma, grief and life changes.
She prefers a straightforward, compassionate way of working. Conversations are shaped around what matters to each person. Sessions aim to make day-to-day coping clearer and to build practical skills for stressful moments.
Benedicta uses methods drawn from cognitive behavioural approaches alongside acceptance and commitment ideas.
Background and approach
She also draws on attachment-focused work to look at how past relationships affect present patterns. These approaches are used to help people notice unhelpful habits and try different responses in everyday life. Her background includes counselling for issues such as addiction, self-esteem, parenting strain and sexual identity concerns.
She is comfortable talking about intimate and sensitive topics and supports people after emotional or physical abuse. Sessions are offered in English and Igbo, and she accepts international clients. People can choose video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text messaging depending on what suits them.
Benedicta encourages a collaborative plan so work can fit around a person's goals and routine.
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and testing small changes in behaviour to reduce distress and improve routines; it often helps with anxiety, low mood and sleep problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Benedicta will discuss different ways of working and decide together which fits a person's goals and preferences. She takes a collaborative stance so sessions match what someone wants to achieve and how they prefer to work.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit into a short break and need less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging suit quick check-ins or people who prefer writing to talking. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult 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
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Igbo
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