About Dumebi
Dumebi Onyejiaka helps people who are struggling with relationships, parenting pressures, and family tension. She also supports people facing anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, stress, anger, and problems around intimacy. Dumebi pays attention to how attachment, abandonment and control issues can shape reactions in close relationships.
Her way of working is straightforward and person-focused. She treats each person as the expert on their life and looks for strengths to build on.
How Dumebi works
Sessions aim to make small, real changes that feel manageable rather than overwhelming. Dumebi uses a mix of approaches drawn from attachment-based, client-centred and psychodynamic perspectives. That means she pays attention to how past relationships affect current feelings, listens without judgement, and helps people notice patterns that repeat.
She also draws on motivational interviewing to help with commitment and moving forward. Clients can expect a calm, reflective space where issues are named plainly. Dumebi helps people talk through family problems, blended family challenges, caregiver stress, codependency, and separation or divorce concerns.
She also offers support for shame, guilt, forgiveness and hoarding-related distress. She has five years of professional experience and holds BACP registration, which is shown as BACP. Dumebi works with adults across the United Kingdom and accepts international clients, with sessions offered in English.
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. To begin, people usually complete a short questionnaire to match with her and then schedule sessions that suit their timetable. The first meetings focus on what matters most and on small steps towards clearer choices.
Dumebi lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Dumebi works with
The areas below are the ones Dumebi selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Paranoia
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Dumebi’s approaches work online
Dumebi uses attachment-based work to look at how early relationships shape current reactions. This approach helps people notice patterns in how they connect, cope with abandonment worries, and respond to conflict.She also draws on client-centred counselling, which means sessions are guided by the person’s priorities. The therapist listens, reflects and follows the pace set by the client to build confidence and self-understanding.
Psychodynamic ideas are used to help uncover repeated patterns that feel stuck. Talking through these patterns can make choices clearer and reduce repeated cycles in relationships.
Choosing the right approach is part of therapy itself. Dumebi collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit best with their goals and situation. Together they check in and adjust the focus as progress is made.
Online sessions give practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a fuller discussion is needed. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a quieter connection is preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins, ongoing reflection between meetings, or people who find typing easier than speaking.
These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep working on issues between sessions with different formats that suit changing needs.
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