Gifty Ogene , NCPS

Gifty Ogene is a counsellor and psychotherapist with 12 years of experience supporting people through emotional difficulties. She works with individuals and couples, drawing on practical methods to help people talk through stress, anxiety, loss and relationship strain. Gifty practices with respect for each person's culture and beliefs and keeps a non-judgemental stance.

She has significant experience supporting people bereaved after a death in hospice care. That work has involved helping relatives, carers and friends process shock, loss and the slow reorganisation that follows bereavement. She also has experience helping people cope with grief long term.

Gifty has worked with relationship concerns, including communication problems, infidelity, money disagreements and issues around forgiveness. She combines awareness of past patterns with tools to change current behaviour and communication. Counselling and psychotherapy are used depending on whether the focus is on practical coping or on deeper insight.

Her practice draws on person-centred principles to build trust and promote growth. She also uses psychodynamic ideas to look at how past experiences shape present relationships, and cognitive behavioural techniques to challenge unhelpful thinking. These approaches are used together to suit each person's needs.

Areas often addressed include anxiety, depression, addiction, parenting strain, intimacy and self-esteem. Gifty also works with issues such as attachment and abandonment, body image, codependency and coping with life changes. Sessions are offered in English and she works with clients in the United Kingdom and internationally.

How her approaches work online and in sessions

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early connections shape current relationships. It helps people who struggle with trust, closeness or abandonment feel more aware of their interaction patterns and practise new ways of relating.

Client-Centred Therapy puts the person at the heart of sessions. The counsellor listens without judgement, follows the person's pace and helps them find their own solutions to problems like low self-esteem, anxiety or life transitions.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings and actions. It offers practical exercises to challenge unhelpful thinking and to develop new coping skills for anxiety, depression and stress.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and suggest a mix of methods that fits the person's needs. That collaborative process helps shape whether sessions focus on insight, skill-building or both.

Online therapy makes these approaches accessible across video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and non-verbal cues, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits short check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options offer flexibility to fit work, family life and different routines.