About Ijeabalum
Ijeabalum Asike is a counsellor who focuses on helping people manage anxiety and stress. She speaks English and Igbo and works with people facing grief, depression, trauma, relationship and parenting challenges. Her approach is warm and respectful and she aims to tailor conversations to each person’s needs.
She trained in psychology and holds two master’s degrees - one in Applied Psychology and another in Counselling and Positive Psychology. She also holds BACP membership, which is listed as a professional credential.
Background and approach
Her background gives her experience in a variety of concerns including addiction, anger, self-esteem and career questions. In sessions she aims to listen without judgement and help people name what feels difficult. Conversations are shaped by what the person brings and by agreed goals.
She works with trauma, abuse, bereavement and people coping with long-term illness or caregiving pressures. Her clinical style draws on client-centred ways of working, emotionally focused methods and mindfulness practices. That means sessions often combine steady listening, exploring feelings in the moment, and simple exercises people can use between meetings.
The emphasis is on practical steps and building coping skills. People who choose her can expect collaborative planning and straightforward language. She encourages people to take small steps and notices progress along the way.
Her aim is to support stronger coping, clearer choices and more manageable day-to-day life.
Approaches you can use online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person’s experience and priorities and is built around careful listening and reflecting what matters most. It helps with anxiety, low mood and decision-making by making space for people to find their own solutions.Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) looks at patterns in important relationships and the feelings beneath them. It can be useful for people who want to better understand attachment, abandonment worries or repeating cycles in close relationships.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve calm. These techniques are often used alongside conversation to help manage stress, intrusive thoughts and overwhelming emotions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will check in and together decide which methods fit the person's needs, goals and preferences. That collaborative process means methods can be adjusted as therapy goes on.
Online sessions using video calls, phone, live chat or text offer flexibility. Video helps keep face-to-face interaction, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and daily life while keeping continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Igbo
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