Dorothi Oviosu, BACP

Dorothi Oviosu supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family difficulties, trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, eating issues, and many other concerns. She also works with issues around intimacy, self-esteem, parenting strain, career changes, ADHD and attachment-related difficulties. Dorothi is named up front so readers know who they are meeting.

She describes her approach as warm and open. Sessions aim to give people a calm place to be heard. She values honesty and non-judgement while helping people reclaim a sense of control.

Dorothi follows the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy framework, which guides her professional practice. She draws on a range of practical tools in sessions, such as life graphs, Russian dolls, blob family exercises, stress balls and sand work. These tools are used to help people make sense of feelings and relationships.

Her way of working mixes talking with hands-on exercises. She uses methods influenced by attachment work, client-centred principles, cognitive behavioural ideas, dialectical behaviour techniques and mindfulness. That mix allows sessions to focus on feelings, thinking patterns and day-to-day coping skills.

With nine years of experience, Dorothi offers steady support through difficult changes. She aims to help people develop a clear map of where they are and where they want to go. The first step is often simply taking that first brave step to book a session.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online support

Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current feelings and connection patterns; online sessions can use talking and visual exercises to notice where those patterns appear in daily life. Client-centred therapy puts the person's experience at the centre, with the counsellor offering empathy and acceptance while the client leads the pace and topics discussed. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviours that make problems worse and trying practical steps to change them, such as simple experiments and coping strategies to use between sessions.

Finding the right approach is usually collaborative. The counsellor will listen to your situation, discuss different ways of working and agree together which methods feel most helpful. That choice can change over time as goals and needs evolve.

The biography does not list specific online session formats, so please confirm current options before booking. Many people find online work helps fit counselling into busy lives by making sessions easier to attend and reducing travel time. Online sessions can also allow shorter check-ins or flexible scheduling around work or caregiving. Registered or accredited professionals adapt exercises and worksheets for remote use so practical tools such as life graphs or sand exercises can still be used where suitable.