Celestina Oniye-Thomas, BACP

Celestina Oniye-Thomas is a UK-based psychotherapist and psychologist with around 20 years of professional experience. She works with people facing relationship strain, family conflict, trauma and abuse, and parenting challenges. She also offers support for stress, anxiety, depression and career worries. Her approach is respectful and compassionate, and she tailors conversations to each person's needs.

She focuses on practical ways to manage difficult feelings and restore day-to-day functioning. Sessions can include exploring patterns in relationships and family of origin issues, looking at attachment and abandonment concerns, and addressing communication or codependency problems. She also helps with intimate relationship difficulties, blended family adjustments and separation or divorce worries.

Therapy draws on a mix of approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Jungian ideas and mindfulness. This combination allows for work on thoughts and behaviours as well as deeper themes that affect identity and meaning. The therapist adapts techniques to what an individual finds most helpful.

People might expect conversations that balance practical coping skills with reflection about long-standing patterns. Celestina pays attention to body image, eating concerns, anger and self-esteem alongside caregiving stress and compassion fatigue. She aims to set clear goals and review progress as therapy continues.

If you are considering support, the process begins with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling step. That helps match needs to the right professional and plan the next steps together.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps towards those values. It focuses on accepting difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to actions that match personal goals, which can help with anxiety, depression and life changes.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours. It offers practical tools to test unhelpful thinking and build different patterns of behaviour, useful for stress, panic, low mood and relationship-related worries.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and suggest methods that fit the person's situation. That collaborative process means techniques can change as needs evolve.

If you are thinking about online counselling, check the available session formats before booking since the biography does not list them. Many people find online sessions help fit therapy around work, family and travel. Online options can make it easier to have shorter check-ins, avoid travel time and choose quieter times that suit a daily routine. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt ACT and CBT to work well in remote sessions, using exercises, homework and guided reflection to keep progress moving.