About Benedicta
Benedicta Okoli is a counsellor and psychotherapist with nine years of practice in the United Kingdom. She accompanies people through relationship strain, anxiety, depression and the practical fallout of trauma. Benedicta also supports those dealing with identity questions, grief, addiction and the stress of major life changes.
Her work combines body-aware somatic methods with talk therapies. Sessions are shaped around what the client needs in the moment. Benedicta aims to make sessions warm, direct and down-to-earth so clients can feel understood and take small steps forward.
Background and approach
She uses approaches drawn from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-focused work and cognitive-behavioural methods. In practice this means helping people notice their feelings and bodily signals, build clearer communication patterns, and try small behavioural changes between sessions. Benedicta adapts her style for individuals, couples and groups, and brings a coaching perspective when practical life or relationship decisions are needed.
She says that beginning therapy can feel hard, and treats that first step as important and worthy of support. Sessions can cover a wide range of issues including parenting stress, intimacy concerns, eating and sleeping difficulties, workplace strain, ADHD-related challenges and bereavement. Conversations are tailored to the person sitting in the room, and plans are adjusted as needs and goals evolve.
How Benedicta's approaches work online
Somatic work helps people notice physical sensations and the body’s responses to stress and trauma; it can support those who feel stuck in anxious or tense states by bringing gentle attention to bodily signals. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on values and practical actions, helping people make small changes aligned with what matters to them while learning to live with difficult thoughts. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections, helping people improve communication and feel safer in close relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the therapy journey. The therapist will work collaboratively to decide which methods suit a person's needs and goals. That process may include trying different techniques in early sessions and adapting plans as progress and preferences become clearer.
Online sessions offer flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited local options. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction, phone sessions suit those who prefer voice-only contact, and live chat or text messaging can be used for brief check-ins or when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to keep continuity and to fit therapy into everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- 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
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Igbo