Celestina Oniye-Thomas

Celestina Oniye-Thomas is a BACP-registered psychotherapist practising in the United Kingdom. She brings around 20 years of professional experience supporting people through relationship stress, trauma, parenting difficulties and changes at work or home. She writes in a straightforward way and aims to make the first step easier for anyone who feels stuck.

Her work often focuses on relationship and family issues, anger, anxiety, depression and self-esteem. She also helps with parenting and co-parenting concerns, adoption and foster care matters, and the long-term effects of abuse or abandonment. People come to her for help with communication problems, control issues and feeling empty or overwhelmed.

In sessions she tailors conversations and plans to each person. She uses practical tools from cognitive behavioural approaches and mindfulness alongside ideas from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Jungian and existential perspectives. That mix is used to help people notice patterns, test small changes, and practise new ways of responding.

Her style is direct but compassionate. She listens for the story behind the problem and helps clients set clear, achievable steps. Sessions include talking, skill practice and reflection to build confidence and coping skills.

Celestina works with people who want to make steady changes in how they relate to others and themselves. If you are weighing options, she invites you to try a short initial step to see how the work fits your life.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small steps towards those values. It can be useful for anxiety, anger and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviours through practical exercises and short experiments. It is often used for anxiety, low mood and stress. Mindfulness-based work encourages simple attention and awareness practices that reduce reactivity and support emotional regulation.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. She will collaborate with each person to find which methods make sense for their goals, needs and preferences. That might mean mixing elements from ACT, CBT and mindfulness to suit the issue and how someone likes to learn.

Confirm the available session formats before booking so you know what options are offered for this therapist. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow for shorter check-ins when time is tight, and reduce travel time. It also lets people try different ways of working from their normal routine while the therapist and client adapt the plan together.