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Elly Oka, BACP
- Credentials
- BACP
- Experience
- 5 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesGriefSelf esteemDepression
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Elly Oka helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief and relationship strain. She also supports those dealing with trauma, addiction, low self-esteem and major life changes. Elly aims to make the first step feel manageable and kind.
Elly works in a straightforward, people-focused way. She treats each person as the expert on their own life and looks for strengths to build on. Sessions are conversational and practical, with small steps you can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Her approach draws on several recognised methods, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy. That mix lets her balance practical skills with attention to feelings and relationships. She adapts tools to match what the person needs right now.
Elly has five years of professional experience and holds BACP accreditation, which is the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She carries that experience into sessions that are calm and focused on clear goals. People often work on things like parenting stress, career shifts, sleeping or eating struggles, and managing anger.
Therapy can include short-term problem solving or longer work on patterns and relationships. Sessions are available in English and can be arranged online for international clients. Elly prefers a collaborative pace so people leave with practical ideas and a clearer sense of direction.
How Elly’s approaches translate to online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult feelings without being driven by them and then make choices that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them against real life, then building new coping skills for mood, sleep and worry. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early patterns with caregivers shape current relationships and helps people develop healthier ways of relating.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Elly will discuss different methods with each person and agree on what to try first. She treats this as a collaboration and adjusts methods as goals and needs become clearer.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter updates, ongoing support between sessions or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel while using the chosen therapeutic tools.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- 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
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- 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
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
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