About Gifty
Gifty Ogene is a counsellor and psychotherapist with 12 years' experience supporting people with emotional wellbeing. She works in the United Kingdom and offers help for a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, grief and relationship difficulties. Gifty uses a respectful, non-judgemental style and aims to build a steady therapeutic relationship with clear boundaries.
Gifty draws on a person-centred approach to create a warm space where clients can be heard.
Background and approach
She also uses psychodynamic ideas to look at how past patterns affect current relationships. Cognitive behavioural techniques are used to spot and challenge thoughts that get in the way of change. She has substantial experience supporting bereaved relatives, carers and friends after a death in hospice care.
That work has focused on managing shock, loss and the steps of adjustment that follow bereavement. Gifty also brings several years of experience working with couples on conflict, communication and trust issues. In sessions she keeps language plain and practical.
Clients can expect to talk through immediate problems and to look at patterns that repeat over time. The aim is to help people find clearer ways to communicate their needs and cope with change. Gifty holds the NCPS credential and combines talking therapy with practical strategies.
She is comfortable supporting people with issues such as addiction, parenting stresses, intimacy concerns, ADHD-related challenges and compassion fatigue.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Attachment-based work looks at how early bonds shape how people relate now. Online sessions can help clients notice patterns like avoidance or fear of closeness and practise new ways of connecting. Cognitive behavioural therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. In online sessions this often means spotting unhelpful thought patterns, testing them with small experiments and learning practical skills to reduce anxiety and unhelpful behaviours.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Gifty will discuss your goals, preferences and what feels most useful, then try methods together to see what helps. That collaborative process means the plan can change as you progress or as needs shift.
Online formats offer practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when meeting in person is difficult. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is low or when being off-camera feels easier. Live chat and text-based messaging suit short check-ins, brief coaching and people who prefer writing to speaking. These options make therapy more flexible for work schedules, caring responsibilities and travel.
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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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