About Celestina
Celestina Oniye-Thomas has worked in therapy for two decades and holds BACP accreditation. She offers a calm, steady presence for people facing difficult relationships, life changes and emotional pain. Her approach is practical and tailored to the person in front of her.
She helps people talk through relationship and family issues, including parenting and co-parenting strain. She also supports clients dealing with trauma, abuse, low self-esteem, anxiety and depression. Career worries, eating and body-image concerns, and problems with anger or intimacy are within her areas of focus.
How Celestina works
Celestina draws on a mix of talking therapies and mindfulness work so sessions can include reflections, practical exercises and coping strategies. She will adapt the mix to suit someone’s goals and preferences. The aim is to build clearer thinking and steadier emotional responses.
Her practice pays attention to attachment and family of origin patterns, abandonment issues, blended family dynamics and adoption or foster care histories. She also works with people facing caregiver stress, compassion fatigue, codependency and communication struggles. Sessions are intended to be a space to sort out priorities, practise new ways of relating and try different responses to old problems.
Celestina emphasises respect, sensitivity and compassionate listening while helping people make realistic changes.
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What Celestina works with
The areas below are the ones Celestina selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting ruled by them. It encourages choosing actions that align with personal values and can help with stress, anxiety and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behaviour and teaches practical skills to manage symptoms like low mood or anxiety. It often uses homework and short exercises between sessions. Mindfulness therapy brings attention to present-moment experience through breathing and awareness practices to reduce reactivity and build calm.Choosing the right approach is part of the work and will happen together. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that seem relevant and adapt techniques as progress is reviewed. This collaborative process helps find what fits each person’s needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video is helpful for full conversations and visual cues, phone can be useful for people with limited bandwidth, and text or chat suits shorter check-ins or those who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, caring responsibilities and travel without losing continuity of care.
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