About Benedicta
Benedicta Sanio Ala-Oborie practises as a psychotherapist in the United Kingdom and holds BACP registration. She offers a warm, respectful approach that aims to help people feel heard and understood. Benedicta focuses on building a trusting relationship where clients can speak openly about difficult feelings.
She has four years of experience supporting people with anxiety, depression, stress and grief. She also works with trauma and complex trauma, self-esteem issues, relationship concerns and problems connected to sexuality and intimacy.
How Benedicta works
Parenting strains, eating and body-image difficulties, anger and compassion fatigue are among the other concerns she addresses. Benedicta combines person-centred and psychodynamic ideas in her work. She uses emotionally-focused ways of engaging with feelings and draws on mindfulness and somatic practices when they help.
Sessions aim to make experiences easier to understand and manage, rather than to fit people into labels. Her style is described as warm and non-judgemental, with an emphasis on respect and sensitivity. She tailors the pace and focus to each person rather than following a fixed formula.
The room is intended as a place to explore patterns, past experiences and current struggles. Practical issues are discussed alongside emotions. Benedicta helps people notice unhelpful patterns, try different ways of relating, and develop tools for coping with life changes.
She encourages small steps that add up to clearer choices and calmer days.
Benedicta lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches that suit online therapy
Client-centred therapy places the person's experience at the heart of sessions and focuses on empathy and open listening. It helps when people need a steady, accepting space to think things through and feel less judged.Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) pays close attention to the patterns of emotion and connection in relationships. It can help people understand attachment needs, repair painful interactions and improve closeness with others.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences and suggest which methods might fit best. Decisions about focus and pace are made collaboratively and can change as progress is made.
Online formats offer practical benefits. Video calls let you see facial expression and tone, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and text or live chat can suit shorter check-ins or days when talking feels hard. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring duties or busy routines while keeping continuity of care with a registered or accredited professional.
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