About Katya
Katya Olateju draws on 16 years of professional experience to help people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and major life changes. She uses a compassionate, respectful style and tailors sessions to each person's needs. Katya works in English and French and is based in the United Kingdom.
Katya focuses on practical ways to manage emotions and build clearer direction. She helps people with parenting concerns, career difficulties, motivation and confidence.
How Katya works
Other areas she addresses include relationship and intimacy-related issues, trauma and abuse, eating and sleeping problems, anger, depression and ADHD. She also supports people dealing with adoption and foster care matters, blended family issues, caregiver stress, ageing concerns and midlife transition. Katya works with themes such as codependency, communication problems, control issues and finding life purpose.
Her approach covers forgiveness, family problems and feelings of emptiness. In sessions she adapts what she does to fit each person's situation. Techniques come from approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-based work, client-centred methods, emotionally focused therapy and mindfulness.
Conversations are practical and geared towards achievable steps. Katya describes the first step as a collaborative process where goals and priorities are set together. She supports people to build coping skills, strengthen relationships and make choices that match their values.
Her aim is to empower people to move towards a more satisfying life.
Katya lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Katya works with
The areas below are the ones Katya selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 16 |
| Languages | English, French |
| 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 care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, often called ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take small, practical steps towards those values. It can be useful for anxiety, low motivation and life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and helps people build safer emotional connections and stronger communication. Client-Centred Therapy places the person at the heart of sessions, using empathic listening and reflection to help people find their own solutions and feel more understood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences and what feels most helpful. Together they decide which methods to use and adjust the plan as progress is made so the work stays relevant and collaborative.
Online therapy offers flexibility and easy access to support through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation from wherever the person is; phone sessions can be a good fit when lower bandwidth or no camera is preferred. Live chat and messaging suit shorter check-ins, homework discussion or people who prefer writing. Registered or accredited professionals provide these options to fit different schedules and communication styles.
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