Ijeabalum Asike, BACP

Ijeabalum Asike offers calm, practical support for people facing relationship pain, stress and emotional overwhelm. She helps clients talk through jealousy, anxiety, depression and grief in straightforward terms. Sessions focus on day-to-day coping, clearer communication and finding small steps that make life easier to manage.

She uses a person-focused approach that places the client's experience at the centre of the work. Conversations are tailored to each person's needs, with attention to feelings, patterns in relationships and the habits that keep difficulties going. Ijeabalum draws on her knowledge of attachment and abandonment issues when helping people understand their responses in close relationships.

Her background includes six years working in the UK mental health field and academic training in psychology and counselling. She holds BACP registration, which is recorded here as BACP. This experience informs a practical, empathic style rather than a one-size-fits-all programme.

In sessions she blends emotionally-focused techniques with mindfulness exercises to help people notice what they feel and act with more choice. People who struggle with intimacy-related worries, addiction patterns or parenting stress may find this approach useful for making steady changes.

Ijeabalum also works with concerns such as ADHD, chronic illness, caregiver stress and body image. Conversations aim to build skills for managing strong emotions and for improving how people relate to others. She supports each person to set achievable goals and to track progress between meetings.

How Ijeabalum’s approaches guide online sessions

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person's own experience and priorities. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears and helps clients find their own solutions; this is useful when people need space to understand feelings and make choices. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) looks at the patterns in close relationships and how emotions drive those patterns, so it can help with jealousy, attachment worries and repeated conflicts. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple noticing exercises and grounding practices to reduce reactivity and improve emotional regulation.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, then try approaches that fit the person's needs. That process is collaborative and can change over time as progress is made.

Confirm the therapist's available session formats before booking, as the biography does not list specific options. Online therapy can make it easier to fit meetings into a busy week, avoid travel time and use shorter check-ins when schedules demand. It also allows continuing support for people who live far from local services or who travel frequently. Registered or accredited professionals aim to adapt session length and pace to what works best for each person.