Celestina Oniye-Thomas, BACP

Celestina Oniye-Thomas is a BACP-registered counsellor with twenty years of experience supporting people through relationship and personal difficulties. She focuses on helping people who are coping with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and life changes. She also works with people facing family and parenting challenges and those dealing with trauma and abuse.

She adapts her approach to each person. Sessions are shaped around what matters most to the client, whether that is getting through a painful breakup, managing anger, or rebuilding confidence after trauma. Her style is respectful and down-to-earth, aiming to make difficult conversations easier to hold.

Celestina uses a mix of practical tools and reflective work. That can mean learning new ways to notice unhelpful thinking, practising simple mindfulness exercises, or looking at patterns that repeat in relationships. She helps people try out different strategies between sessions and notices what is helpful.

Her work also addresses specific relationship topics such as communication problems, codependency, blended family issues, divorce and separation, and intimacy-related worries. She is comfortable talking through attachment and abandonment concerns and the emotional impact of adoption and foster care.

People who choose Celestina tend to want clear, manageable next steps and thoughtful listening. She aims to make each session useful and to help clients build skills they can use in daily life.

Approaches that inform online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small committed actions that align with those values. It can help when life feels stuck or when worry and avoidance get in the way of what matters most.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and behaviours keep problems going. It uses simple exercises and experiments to test unhelpful thinking and build more effective coping habits, which can be useful for anxiety, low mood and stress.

Finding the right approach is part of the work itself. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods to try first, and will adjust the plan based on how things are going. This shared process helps match techniques to the client’s goals and preferences.

Practical benefits of online sessions depend on the formats available, which are not specified in the biography, so please confirm options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy around busy days, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. It also means tools and exercises can be practised in everyday settings, so learning transfers directly into daily life.