About Benedicta
Benedicta Sanio Ala-Oborie is a psychotherapist who works from an integrative, person-centred base. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - BACP - and has four years of clinical experience in the United Kingdom. Benedicta aims to make therapy a calm place where people can talk about what matters to them.
She supports people coping with anxiety, stress, grief and depression. She also helps with relationship and intimacy concerns, issues around self-esteem, and the effects of trauma and abuse.
Background and approach
Additional areas she addresses include parenting strains, eating and body image worries, ADHD and compassion fatigue. Her practical approach draws on psychodynamic ideas and client-centred work. She uses mindfulness and somatic techniques such as breath work when these fit the person’s needs.
Sessions focus on understanding what has happened and on making sense of difficult feelings. Benedicta emphasises a warm, non-judgemental tone. She aims to treat everyone with sensitivity and respect, and to avoid labels that feel stigmatising.
The work is adjusted to each person rather than following a fixed script. People who choose her often want to explore long-running patterns, attachment concerns, or recent life changes. The first meetings are used to agree goals and plan how best to move forward together.
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging as ways to meet.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centred work focuses on listening closely and following the person's concerns. It helps people feel heard and supported while they talk about anxiety, relationships or life changes. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) looks at patterns in how people relate and express emotions, which can be useful for resolving painful interaction styles and attachment worries. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to help reduce anxiety and manage strong feelings.Finding the right approach is part of the therapy journey. Benedicta will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then try ways of working that suit them. That collaborative process helps decide whether sessions should use more reflective psychodynamic thinking, hands-on mindfulness and somatic exercises, or a mix of methods.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video is good for deeper conversations and emotional work, phone calls are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat can fit a short check-in during a busy day, and messaging helps people reflect in writing between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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