Benedicta Okoli, BACP
9 years in practice
Benedicta Okoli is a counsellor with nine years' experience working in the United Kingdom.
License and registration
- BACP
- 403083 · expires May 2026
- Years in practice
- 9
- Languages
- English, Igbo
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About Benedicta
Benedicta Okoli is a counsellor with nine years' experience working in the United Kingdom. She holds BACP registration and offers individual and couple sessions as well as group work. Benedicta focuses on practical support for people facing relationship strain, mood difficulties, anxiety, trauma, and life transitions.
Her approach is direct and person-centred. She helps people name what matters to them and find steps they can try between sessions. Conversations are paced to each person, with space for both emotion and practical problem solving.
Background and approach
Benedicta draws on several approaches to tailor care. She uses existential ideas to look at meaning and identity. Cognitive-behavioural techniques are used for patterns of thought and behaviour.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy methods support values-led changes. She also uses attachment-based perspectives when exploring relationship patterns and close ties. Sessions may include coaching-style guidance for career or parenting challenges alongside therapeutic work for trauma, grief, addiction, or chronic stress.
Benedicta works in English and Igbo and accepts international clients. Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging and are arranged through a subscription model. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and appointments are scheduled according to availability.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Benedicta lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Benedicta names
- Existential Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Therapeutic approaches for online work
Existential therapy helps people look at questions of meaning, identity and choice. It can be useful when someone faces life transitions, identity concerns or a sense of aimlessness. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings while taking small actions that reflect personal values; it is often used for anxiety, stress and low mood.Attachment-based therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns in close relationships. It can help people understand repeating dynamics and try different ways of relating in friendships or partnerships. Benedicta combines these approaches to match each person's needs and goals and to decide together which methods feel most helpful.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat and text-based messaging, giving flexibility for different days and routines. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions suit those who prefer not to be on camera, while live chat or messaging can be used for brief check-ins or when a text-based format fits a busy schedule. Registered or accredited professionals can work with you to arrange formats, times and pacing that fit your life.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Benedicta help with?
She supports people dealing with anxiety, depression, trauma and grief, as well as relationship and family issues, addiction, eating and sleeping problems, ADHD and career or parenting stress.
How would you describe the therapeutic style?
Work is collaborative and straightforward, combining existential reflection with practical tools from CBT and ACT and a client-centred way of listening.
What is her background and experience?
She has nine years' experience in therapy and coaching and brings both counselling and relationship coaching into her practice.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and is based in the United Kingdom.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English and Igbo, and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
Appointments can take place by video call, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs.
How does cost and payment work?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I get started?
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