About Elly
Elly Oka is a counsellor who helps people manage stress and anxiety and cope with life changes. She works with issues such as depression, grief, relationship worries, and difficulties with self-esteem. People also come to her for support around trauma and abuse, addictions, and challenges at work or in parenting.
Elly draws on practical talking therapies to help clients find what works for them. She uses cognitive behavioural ideas to spot unhelpful thinking patterns.
Background and approach
She also uses acceptance and commitment approaches to help people clarify what matters and take small steps towards those things. Her style is warm and client-centred. Sessions aim to be straightforward and focused.
Elly encourages people to name their goals and to try small experiments between sessions. She has five years of clinical experience and is registered with BACP, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. That background informs how she plans work with each person.
Elly offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for people in the United Kingdom and internationally. Therapy sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to availability.
How Elly’s approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It supports clients to clarify values and take small, value-driven actions to improve daily life. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and testing unhelpful thoughts and routines, and on practising new ways of coping that reduce symptoms over time.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Elly works with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. She will check in regularly and adapt the plan as progress is made or priorities change.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls allow for a near face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a quicker way to check in. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter updates, brief coaching, or when someone wants to write rather than speak. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping continuity of support with registered or accredited professionals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- 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
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- 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
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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