Dumebi Onyejiaka, BACP

Dumebi Onyejiaka helps people who are facing relationship strain, family conflict, parenting challenges, anxiety, low self‑esteem and stress. She also supports those dealing with trauma and abuse, grief, anger, career concerns and major life changes. Dumebi works with issues linked to attachment, codependency, abandonment, blended family dynamics and caregiver stress. She adopts a straightforward, person-centred stance in sessions. Dumebi treats each person as the expert on their own life and looks for strengths to build on. She prioritises clear listening and gentle questioning so people can make sense of difficult feelings. Her approach draws on several therapy styles to meet different needs. She uses attachment-based ideas to look at patterns that repeat in relationships. Client-centred ways encourage people to set the pace and topics for their work. Psychodynamic thinking can help uncover long-standing patterns that affect mood and behaviour. Across sessions Dumebi aims to help people feel more confident in decision making and more able to cope with everyday pressures. She offers practical support for parenting and family tensions, and space to process grief or past hurts. Sessions also focus on building healthier boundaries around control and dependency. Dumebi holds BACP accreditation, which reflects professional registration in the UK. She has around five years of practice experience. Sessions are conducted in English and she accepts international clients, so people can connect from other countries when arrangements allow. To begin, clients follow the platform process to match and schedule a session according to the therapist's availability.

How her approaches translate to online working

Attachment‑based therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions using this approach look at how people relate, trust and form closeness, and can help with repeated patterns in relationships. Client‑centred therapy gives the person control of the session. The counsellor follows the person's lead, offers reflective listening and helps them to clarify what matters most. Finding the right approach usually happens together. Dumebi will work collaboratively to decide which style or mix of styles best suits a person's goals and life situation. That collaborative process includes checking what feels comfortable and adjusting methods as progress is made. Please confirm the available session formats before booking as the biography does not list specific delivery methods. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives, for example by removing travel time, allowing sessions during a lunch break or enabling shorter check‑ins when needed. It can also allow people to connect from different locations, which helps when schedules or circumstances change.