Benedicta Sanio Ala-Oborie
Experienced BACP psychotherapist in the UK
About Benedicta
Benedicta Sanio Ala-Oborie is a BACP psychotherapist practising in the United Kingdom. She draws on four years of clinical experience to help people facing loss, anxiety, depression and relationship strain. Benedicta works in a warm, non-judgemental way and aims to make therapy feel respectful and approachable.
She offers help with bereavement, grief and trauma, as well as stress, anger and low self-esteem. She also supports people with eating and intimacy-related concerns, parenting challenges and issues around identity and sexuality.
Background and approach
Additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment concerns, body image, chronic illness and living with ADHD. Benedicta blends person-centred and psychodynamic ideas to shape conversations. Sessions tend to focus on feelings, patterns and important relationships.
Mindfulness and breathing techniques are used when helpful to manage overwhelming feelings in the moment. Her style is relational and collaborative. She listens for underlying themes in a person’s life and helps them make sense of difficult experiences.
The aim is to build understanding, reduce distress and identify practical steps clients can try between sessions. Benedicta does not provide diagnostic labels but will work with whatever diagnosis a person already has to help them understand their experiences. She meets people where they are and adapts her approach to each person’s needs and goals.
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How Benedicta works
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Sessions & fees
Approaches that guide online therapy
Client-centred therapy focuses on the person’s needs and experience, offering a respectful space where the therapist follows the client’s lead and helps them explore what matters most. This approach is useful for building self-understanding and confidence in handling life changes.Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) pays attention to emotions in relationships and how attachment needs show up. It helps people identify and reshape patterns that cause pain in close connections and can be helpful for those facing intimacy or relationship distress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Benedicta will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, and then adapt methods together. This collaborative process helps match techniques to a person’s present needs rather than applying one fixed model.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that matters, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins and text-based messaging lets someone reflect in writing between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep continuity when schedules change.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| 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
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- 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