Celestina Oniye-Thomas
Practical, compassionate therapy for relationship and life challenges
About Celestina
Celestina Oniye-Thomas is a psychotherapist practising in the United Kingdom. She holds BACP accreditation and brings twenty years of clinical experience to her work. She aims to create a respectful and compassionate space for people to talk about difficult issues.
She approaches therapy in a practical way. Sessions are tailored to what each person needs. She listens for patterns from family history, relationships, and life stressors that affect day-to-day coping.
Background and approach
Celestina helps people navigate relationship and family problems, parenting and coparenting concerns, and the effects of trauma and abuse. She also supports people struggling with anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, anger, eating and body image worries, and career stress. Her work can include looking at attachment and abandonment themes, blended family issues, communication difficulties, codependency and control problems.
She is experienced supporting those affected by domestic violence, adoption and foster care histories, and caregiver strain. Therapeutic methods draw on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Jungian ideas and mindfulness. The focus is on helping people build practical coping skills while also making sense of deeper feelings.
She will tailor conversations and strategies to each person’s goals and circumstances.
What Celestina works with
How Celestina works
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Sessions & fees
Approaches that suit online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice painful thoughts and feelings without being driven by them, then commit to actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress and when life changes make it hard to move forward.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact. It teaches practical skills to challenge unhelpful thinking and change patterns that maintain problems such as depression, anxiety or anger.
Existential Therapy invites people to explore meaning, responsibility and choice when life feels empty or confusing. It can help when someone is questioning identity, purpose or major life decisions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. Sessions adapt over time as needs change and new priorities emerge.
Online therapy lets people connect by video, phone, chat or text. Video sessions are close to face-to-face discussion, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging works for people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel while maintaining continuity of care.
| 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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
