Ayotunde Popoola
Calm, practical counselling to steady stressful times
About Ayotunde
Ayotunde Popoola offers calm, practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression and major life changes. She introduces straightforward ways to cope and helps people clarify what matters to them. Her style is warm and person-focused, aimed at making conversations feel natural and useful from the first session.
Ayotunde works from a person-centred foundation and combines that with practical methods drawn from cognitive behavioural therapy, solution-focused work and trauma-focused approaches.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to be collaborative and down-to-earth. She listens for patterns that cause distress and helps people try different ways of responding. Her background includes four years working in the counselling field and registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
That experience has involved supporting people through grief, trauma and relationship strain as well as helping with anger and self-esteem problems. She also works with a range of concerns such as body image, caregiving stress and the fallout from separation or divorce. Typical conversations focus on current problems and practical steps that can reduce distress.
This might include identifying unhelpful thoughts, testing new behaviours, or developing short-term coping plans. The work is shaped by the person’s own goals rather than a fixed script. Sessions are offered in English and are provided to people in the United Kingdom.
Ayotunde uses a mix of video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging so people can choose what suits them. To begin an initial match, clients complete a short questionnaire and then book a session according to the therapist’s schedule.
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Sessions & fees
How these approaches work online
Client-centred work focuses on the person’s own experience and aims to make conversations feel non-judgemental and clear. It helps when someone needs space to reflect on feelings, identity or purpose and prefers a listening approach that follows their lead.Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours. It offers simple exercises to test negative beliefs and to try new actions, which can reduce anxiety and low mood over time.
Trauma-focused therapy concentrates on managing strong emotional reactions and on building safer ways to process upsetting memories. It can help people who are coping with effects of past abuse, loss or other traumatic events.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and help pick methods that match the person’s needs, goals and comfort level. That choice is made together and can change as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier if bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging allow brief updates or ongoing reflection between longer sessions. These formats give flexibility so people can fit therapy around work, caring duties or daily life.
| 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
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
