About Gifty
Gifty Ogene is a counsellor and psychotherapist with twelve years of clinical experience in the United Kingdom. She supports people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, grief, depression and relationship difficulties. Gifty uses a straightforward, non-judgemental style and works to create a steady therapeutic relationship where people feel heard and respected.
She has worked with bereaved relatives, carers and friends after losses in hospice settings and understands shock, disorganisation and the slow work of recovery.
Background and approach
She also has experience helping people address addictions, compassion fatigue and the emotional fallout of trauma and abuse. Gifty combines several approaches in her practice. She draws on client-centred (person-centred) methods to build trust and let people lead the conversation.
She uses psychodynamic ideas to look at past patterns that repeat in current relationships. Cognitive behavioural strategies are used to spot and challenge unhelpful thoughts. Sessions focus on clear, practical steps as well as understanding deeper feelings.
Conversations might cover communication problems, attachment concerns, codependency, intimacy and issues around parenting and career stress. Gifty aims to help people find ways to express needs, manage strong emotions and make changes that fit their life. She communicates in English and works with international clients as well as people in the UK.
Gifty is registered with NCPS and offers appointments through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text messaging. To begin, clients complete a short questionnaire and then schedule sessions.
How Gifty’s approaches work online
Gifty uses client-centred methods that prioritise listening and the relationship. This approach helps people feel understood and lets them set the agenda for sessions, which can be useful for anxiety, grief or career stress.She also uses cognitive behavioural therapy, which looks at thought patterns and practical steps to change unhelpful behaviours. CBT can be helpful for anxiety, depression and managing strong emotions, and lends itself to goal-focused online work.
Deciding which approach fits best is part of the process. Gifty will work collaboratively to match methods to a client’s needs, goals and preferences, and may combine techniques where that makes sense.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer typed communication. These options aim to make regular therapy more flexible around work, travel and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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