About Benedicta
Benedicta Okoli is a counsellor who has practised in the United Kingdom for nine years. She holds BACP registration and brings experience supporting people through anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship difficulties and life changes. Benedicta uses a warm, respectful manner and aims to make first steps feel manageable for worried visitors.
She works with individual clients and with couples, drawing on both psychotherapy and relationship coaching in her sessions. Benedicta listens for what matters most, then shapes conversations and goals to each person’s situation.
Background and approach
Sessions are practical and grounded in everyday concerns like sleep, work stress, parenting strains and intimacy issues. Benedicta uses a mix of approaches to suit different problems. She commonly applies cognitive behavioural ideas to spot unhelpful thinking, acceptance and commitment strategies to clarify values and action, and attachment-informed thinking for relationship and early life issues.
These methods are used as tools during conversations rather than fixed rules. People consult her about an array of concerns, including addictions, grief, eating and body image, compassion fatigue, ADHD and complex family or adoption-related themes. She also supports clients dealing with anger, career decisions and coping with chronic illness or caregiver stress.
Benedicta adapts pace and focus so each person sets realistic steps. Sessions are offered in English and Igbo and Benedicta is available to work with international clients. She aims to keep language simple and the process clear, so people can focus on change instead of jargon.
How therapy approaches translate online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. Online sessions can use this approach to set small, practical goals and check progress between meetings.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy focuses on identifying thought and behaviour patterns that keep problems going and testing new ways of responding. In video or phone sessions clients can work through exercises, receive worksheets, and practise skills in day-to-day life.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships affect current connections and emotional responses. It is useful for people wanting to improve intimacy, manage abandonment worries, or understand family patterns during conversations online.
Finding the right approach is something the therapist will do with each client. Benedicta discusses your aims and preferences, then suggests methods to try. The plan can change as you learn what helps most, so therapy stays aligned with your needs.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared screen work. Phone sessions are a lower-bandwidth option for check-ins, while live chat and text messaging suit short updates or people who prefer writing. These choices give flexibility for different days and practical circumstances.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- 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
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- 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
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Igbo
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