About Celestina
Celestina Oniye-Thomas is a BACP counsellor with 20 years of clinical experience in the United Kingdom. She focuses on practical help for people facing relationship strain, anxiety, parenting stress and trauma. She uses straightforward conversation and tailored plans to help clients make daily changes that feel manageable.
Her approach begins with listening to what matters to the person in front of her. She asks clear questions and works with each person to set achievable goals.
Background and approach
Sessions are shaped around real-life situations such as parenting challenges, work pressure and intimate relationship concerns. Celestina draws on a mix of approaches to suit the client. She uses techniques that help change unhelpful thoughts, build values-based actions, and bring present-moment awareness to difficult feelings.
She also pays attention to deeper life questions and personal meaning when that is useful. In practice she offers a calm, direct style. She supports people to spot patterns, try small experiments, and learn new ways of coping.
Conversations are practical and grounded in what will fit into a person’s life. People who prefer a counsellor who balances short-term tools with reflective work tend to find her helpful. She accepts people from the UK and internationally, and she conducts sessions in English.
The focus is on steady steps forward rather than quick fixes.
Approach choices and how online sessions help
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) invites people to notice difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to actions that matter to them. It is useful when anxiety or avoidance gets in the way of everyday life. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying small experiments to change them, which can help with anxiety, low mood and stress. Existential Therapy looks at life choices, meaning and personal values, which can be helpful when someone feels stuck or questions their direction.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the person about their goals and preferences, then suggest ways of working together. This is a collaborative process and can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation across distance. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a work break. Live chat or messaging can suit people who prefer shorter check-ins or find typed conversation easier. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to access alongside everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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