About Emmanuel
Emmanuel Oragui uses a client-centred, attachment-aware approach to counselling. He aims to create a calm and genuine atmosphere where people can talk about worry, grief, relationship strain, and changes in life. Emmanuel is a BACP counsellor with five years of experience based in the United Kingdom and offers sessions in English.
Emmanuel brings warmth and straightforward energy to sessions. He focuses on building trust so people feel safe to discuss difficult memories, trauma, or intimacy-related issues.
How Emmanuel works
His style is conversational and practical, and he pays attention to what matters most to each person. He draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. Emmanuel also uses client-centred listening to help people find their own direction.
Cognitive behavioural techniques are used where helpful to spot thinking patterns and try different ways of coping. Over five years he has worked across community settings and educational provisions, gaining experience with a wide mix of people and presenting problems. He has supported matters such as stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, grief, parenting concerns, and relationship difficulties.
Emmanuel holds the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy credential, BACP. He completed an Advanced Diploma in Psychotherapy Counselling Skills and a Professional Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling Practice. He continues to build his skills and knowledge to better support each person he meets.
Emmanuel lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Emmanuel works with
The areas below are the ones Emmanuel selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- 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
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- 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
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Emmanuel works with attachment-based ideas to look at how early bonds influence current relationships and patterns. This approach can help people who notice repeating relationship problems or who struggle with trust and emotional closeness.He uses a client-centred way of working that prioritises the person’s own experience and pace. That means listening closely, reflecting back what matters, and helping people find their own solutions rather than imposing fixes.
Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, is another tool he brings in for practical change. CBT helps identify unhelpful thoughts and experiments with different behaviours to reduce anxiety and improve mood.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Emmanuel will talk through options with each person and adjust methods to fit their goals, preferences, and the issues they want to address. He aims to agree a plan together and review it as work progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make counselling more flexible. Video is useful for a fuller conversation, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging suits quick check-ins or people who prefer typing. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, study, or caring duties and help keep continuity of support when schedules change.
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