Celestina Oniye-Thomas, BACP
Celestina Oniye-Thomas is a counsellor with around 20 years of experience working with people facing relationship and family difficulties.
About Celestina
Celestina Oniye-Thomas is a counsellor with around 20 years of experience working with people facing relationship and family difficulties. She holds BACP accreditation, and she draws on that background to offer steady, respectful support. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, aimed at helping people take the first steps toward change.
She helps with trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, and parenting concerns. She also supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, eating issues, anger and depression.
Background and approach
Additional focus areas include abandonment, attachment issues, adoption and foster care matters, and blended family concerns. Sessions are driven by what the person brings. She combines practical tools with reflective conversation.
That can mean using techniques from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to notice and change unhelpful thinking, or working with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and build action steps. Celestina also draws on trauma-focused approaches and elements of existential and Jungian thought when those fit a client’s needs.
She adapts pace and tasks so people feel able to manage difficult memories and emotions. Her aim is to help clients find clearer choices and steadier ways of coping. People who value direct, calm guidance and a respectful space to talk may find her approach helpful.
She encourages small, achievable steps and practical strategies alongside exploring deeper personal themes. The focus is on what will help someone move forward in their daily life.
Details from the counsellor's public professional profile · registration number listed
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| Body | Registration number | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| BACP | 194219 | October 2026 |
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Sessions and payment
Sessions are held online through our partner platform, by video, phone or messaging depending on the counsellor.
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Focus areas and approaches
Everything Celestina lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Coaching
- Stress, Anxiety
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Ways of working Celestina names
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor lists and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It often helps when someone wants clearer direction and practical steps toward a more meaningful life. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviours that keep problems going and testing new ways of thinking and acting. It is often used for anxiety, low mood and stress reduction.Trauma-focused work aims to support people as they talk through distressing experiences and learn ways to reduce their impact on daily life. This can involve pacing discussions, grounding strategies and developing coping tools so memories become less overwhelming rather than changing who someone is.
Finding the right approach is a joint effort. The counsellor will discuss goals and try methods that fit the client’s needs and preferences. That collaborative process may combine elements from different therapies and adjust over time if something isn’t helping.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful for fuller face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging allows ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel.
Frequently asked
What kinds of concerns can be brought to therapy?
She works with relationship and family difficulties, trauma and abuse, parenting and co-parenting concerns, stress, anxiety, depression, self-esteem and intimacy-related issues.
How would therapy feel day to day?
Sessions mix practical skill-building with reflective conversation. Tasks may include noticing thoughts and trying new behaviours between sessions.
What experience does the counsellor have?
She has around 20 years of professional experience supporting people with relationship, trauma and family issues.
What credentials and country are listed?
She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and practises in the United Kingdom.
Which languages and international options are available?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
Therapy can be delivered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How does cost and billing work?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with this counsellor?
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