Counsellor profile
Benedicta Okoli, BACP
BACP counsellor - relationships and family concerns
Continue with BenedictaAbout
- Relationship issues
- Parenting strain
- Trauma and grief
About Benedicta
Benedicta Okoli is a BACP counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with nine years of experience. She works with adults facing relationship strain, parenting pressures, mood changes and trauma. Sessions are conducted in English and Igbo, and she accepts international clients.
Benedicta helps people with a wide range of concerns. These include addictions, anxiety, depression, bipolar mood issues, grief, stress, and problems with intimacy. She also supports people dealing with family conflict, adoption and foster care matters, abandonment, and the impact of abuse or physical trauma.
Her approach draws on several evidence-informed methods. She uses acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-based thinking, client-centred conversation, cognitive behavioural techniques and skills from dialectical behaviour work. In practice this means talking through how thoughts, emotions and behaviour interact, and trying small changes that feel manageable.
Sessions aim to be practical and straightforward. Benedicta listens to the specific problem and suggests ways to cope in day-to-day life. She offers coaching-style conversations when goals are clear, and therapeutic work when people want to understand patterns from the past.
She supports adults dealing with parenting strain, blended-family issues, caregiver stress and relationship difficulties. People who speak Igbo or English can work with her, and she welcomes enquiries from outside the UK. To begin, she asks people to complete a short questionnaire and book a first session.
How sessions work
How her therapeutic approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on relationship patterns formed early in life and how they affect current relationships. It is often used when family or attachment issues are a central concern.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Benedicta will discuss options with each person and shape the plan around their goals, needs and preferences. That choice is collaborative and may change as work progresses.
The practical aim of online sessions is to fit therapy into everyday life. Confirm the current session formats before booking so you know how meetings are held. Online work can make it easier to attend from different locations, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time so sessions fit around parenting and work commitments.
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Experience
9+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English, Igbo
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she address?
She works with adults on relationship strain, parenting pressures, addiction, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief and related issues.
What is her therapeutic style like?
She combines client-centred conversation with CBT, DBT skills, ACT and attachment-based ideas to help people change thoughts and behaviours and manage strong emotions.
How much experience does she have?
She has nine years of professional experience working with adults on relationship and family related concerns.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is listed with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and practises in the United Kingdom.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English and Igbo.
Can people outside the UK work with her?
She accepts international clients.
How are sessions paid for?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Use the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Details come from information the counsellor supplied to BetterHelp. A registration can be checked with the body that issued it.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If anyone is in danger, use the crisis numbers.