About Benedicta
Benedicta Okoli is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with nine years of clinical experience. She holds BACP accreditation and speaks English and Igbo. Benedicta offers compassionate support for people facing relationship strains, addiction concerns, mood difficulties and a wide range of life stressors.
Her work covers anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem struggles and intimacy-related issues. She also helps with eating and sleeping difficulties, anger, career questions and coping with life changes.
How Benedicta works
People also come to her about ADHD, bipolar symptoms and compassion fatigue. Benedicta draws on several practical approaches, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Attachment-Based methods. Sessions focus on clear goals, useful skills and realistic steps you can try between meetings.
Dialogue is adapted to match each person’s pace and needs. Her style is warm and straightforward. She aims to make starting therapy less daunting and creates a respectful space for honest conversations.
Benedicta emphasises collaboration and works with people to set achievable short-term aims alongside longer-term hopes. People who choose her often want grounded, hands-on help for relationship difficulties, trauma recovery, or day-to-day stress and mood problems. She also supports those navigating parenting challenges, adoption or foster-care related issues, body-image concerns and chronic illness.
Sessions are delivered in formats that suit practical needs and schedules.
Benedicta lists 15 ways of working on the entry:
- 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
What Benedicta works with
The areas below are the ones Benedicta selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English, Igbo |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Benedicta uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and focus on actions that match their values. ACT can be useful for anxiety, low mood and for people who feel stuck in patterns they want to change.She also works with Attachment-Based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. This helps when relationship patterns, intimacy or trust are causes of distress. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is used to identify unhelpful thinking and try out different behaviours to change mood and daily functioning.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Benedicta will talk with each person about goals, preferences and what has helped or not helped before. Together you decide which methods to try and adjust them as you go.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let you keep visual contact and have deeper conversations. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat or text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, journalling support and people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work and family life while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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