Celestina Oniye-Thomas , BACP

Celestina Oniye-Thomas is a BACP-registered counsellor and psychotherapist with two decades of practice in the United Kingdom. She draws on long experience supporting people through relationship strain, parenting challenges and trauma. Her approach is calm and respectful, and she aims to meet clients where they are.

She works with common concerns like anxiety, depression, stress and low self-esteem. She also helps with intimacy and relationship problems, eating and body image worries, anger, career questions and major life changes. Parenting and blended family difficulties are within her areas of focus, along with compassion fatigue and caregiver stress.

Her work can include practical coaching around communication, boundaries and coping strategies. She uses methods that bring awareness to thoughts and feelings, then helps people try different ways of responding. Sessions are framed to fit each person’s goals and pace.

Celestina pays attention to background patterns such as attachment, abandonment or family-of-origin issues when they affect current relationships. She also supports people processing trauma, abuse or separation. Discussions explore both current problems and the earlier experiences that shape them.

Clients can expect a conversational style that balances listening with gentle challenge. The therapist aims to build a trusting working relationship and to help people find clearer choices in their lives.

She offers work remotely and with people from different countries, conducting sessions in English and adapting the format to each person’s circumstances.

Therapeutic approaches that translate well online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on what matters most to the person and helps them take small actions that match their values, which can be useful for anxiety, stress and life changes.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact. It uses clear, practical exercises and experiments to test new ways of thinking and coping, which works well for anxiety, depression and low self-esteem.

Finding the right method is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss your goals, preferences and how you respond to different approaches, then decide on a path together. This collaborative planning can change over time as needs shift.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit into busy lives and different schedules. Video calls allow visual connection for deeper conversation, phone sessions need less bandwidth, chat can be good for brief check-ins, and messaging suits ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help people keep continuity, make therapy easier to fit around work or caring duties, and allow therapy to continue when travel or distance would otherwise make it difficult.