About Ornella
Ornella Tohme is a counsellor who uses a Client-Centred approach to help people manage anxiety and stress. She works from a respectful, compassionate stance and aims to tailor sessions to each person’s needs. Her style is warm and collaborative, focused on helping people find clearer thinking and steadier emotions.
With eight years of experience, Ornella has supported people dealing with relationship tension, family conflict, trauma and abuse, depression, addictions and grief.
Background and approach
She also helps with intimacy-related concerns, parenting stress, anger, career uncertainty and major life changes. Sessions focus on what matters most to the individual rather than a one-size-fits-all plan. Her counselling draws on Client-Centred Therapy, which puts the client’s perspective at the centre of the work.
Conversations aim to build understanding, self-awareness and coping skills at a pace that suits the client. Ornella adapts the way she talks and plans work so it fits each person’s situation. Ornella speaks English, Arabic and French, and practises from the United Kingdom.
She is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, often shown as BACP, which is noted on her profile. People who choose this way of working can expect a supportive environment to talk things through. Ornella focuses on helping people feel heard, explore options and take practical steps toward change.
How Client-Centred Work Fits into Online Therapy
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person rather than on labels. The counsellor listens closely, reflects back what they hear and follows the client’s pace. This approach helps people who are anxious, stressed or dealing with relationship and family difficulties to feel understood and to explore solutions that make sense to them.The therapist’s role is to offer empathy, acceptance and clear feedback rather than to direct every step. In practice this means sessions focus on what the client wants to work on and adapt as goals change. Ornella will work together with each person to choose which methods and conversation styles suit their needs and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a quieter audio check-in is preferred. Live chat and text messaging can be shorter, more frequent touchpoints for brief updates or when typing feels easier. These options help people fit counselling around work, family and travel, offering more flexibility and easier access to regular support.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Arabic, French
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