About Ganiyat
Ganiyat Olaleye is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with six years' experience supporting people through stress, anxiety and depression. She meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps to ease daily pressures. Ganiyat speaks English and Yoruba and works with clients who face relationship strain, grief, parenting struggles, and challenges with motivation and self-esteem.
She uses a mix of well-known counselling approaches to match each person's needs.
Background and approach
Sessions are shaped around the individual's goals and current life situation. Ganiyat listens for strengths and patterns, then helps people try different ways of responding to difficult feelings and situations. Common themes she addresses include sleep and eating concerns, coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, and issues linked to trauma and abuse.
She also supports people dealing with ADHD-related challenges, addiction, body image, and communication problems. Practical strategies and short-term goals are a regular part of the work. Ganiyat values collaboration and clear steps.
She encourages clients to experiment with new skills between sessions and to reflect on what helps most. Her aim is to help people build tools they can use outside of therapy. Clients describe sessions that blend listening with structured exercises and problem-solving.
Ganiyat draws on several therapeutic styles so the plan can change as progress is made. She invites people to take the first step and see what shifts are possible.
How therapeutic approaches shape online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice uncomfortable thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then commit to actions that match their values. It often helps with anxiety, stress and motivation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and teaches practical techniques to change unhelpful patterns, which can be useful for anxiety, depression and sleep problems.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals, try a method for a few sessions, and adjust the plan as you notice what helps. That way the work stays practical and tailored to you rather than fixed from the outset.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to fit around your life. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat works for short check-ins, and messaging suits people who prefer typed communication. These options make it simpler to keep regular sessions during busy weeks or while travelling, and they let the therapist and client focus on what works best for progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- 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
- 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
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- 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
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- 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
- Jungian Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Yoruba
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