Abolanle (Bola) Aloluwaloba
Compassionate practical counselling for everyday struggles
About Abolanle
Abolanle (Bola) Aloluwaloba helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and major life changes. She speaks English and Yoruba and works with a wide range of concerns, from grief and trauma to addictions and relationship difficulty. Bola uses a straightforward, compassionate style so people feel heard and understood from the first session.
She draws on five years of clinical experience and holds NCPS as a professional credential.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative - she listens, reflects, and helps people spot patterns in their thinking and behaviour. Then she works with them to set small, realistic steps for change. Bola uses practical approaches such as cognitive behavioural techniques and acceptance and commitment ideas to help manage difficult feelings.
She also uses attachment-based and client-centred methods to improve how people relate to themselves and others. Dialectical behaviour strategies are used where emotion regulation and distress tolerance are needed. In sessions she helps people name what matters most to them and build skills that fit their daily life.
Conversations focus on concrete problems like sleep, eating, parenting strains, work stress and relationship tensions. She aims to help people feel more able to cope and make clearer choices. Bola encourages commitment to the process and expects honest, sometimes challenging work.
Over time people often report clearer thinking and more confidence in their own resources. Her approach balances practical tools with space to understand painful experiences.
What Abolanle works with
How Abolanle works
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Sessions & fees
How therapeutic approaches work online
Abolanle uses cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to help people spot and change unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns. CBT sessions often involve practical exercises and simple tools to test thoughts and build different habits, which can help with anxiety, depression and sleep or eating problems.She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) which focuses on noticing difficult feelings and choosing actions that match what matters most. ACT helps people tolerate uncomfortable emotions while building small steps toward a more valued life, useful for stress, grief and ongoing mood concerns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and adapt methods based on how a person responds. That collaborative process helps pick tools that fit someone’s daily routine and needs.
Online therapy sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make it easier to fit counselling into busy lives. Video calls suit deeper conversations and visual connection, phone sessions can be lower bandwidth, live chat works for quick check-ins and text messaging lets people write between appointments. These options give flexibility for different schedules, energy levels and practical constraints.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Hypnotherapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English, Yoruba
