Damian Okafor
Compassionate practical therapy for everyday challenges
About Damian
Damian Okafor works from a client-centred and cognitive-behavioural perspective to help people make practical changes. He blends straightforward talking therapy with skills-based tools. Damian is a BACP member with ten years of experience in the United Kingdom.
He keeps sessions warm and interactive. People are treated with respect and without stigmatising labels. Damian encourages clients to see themselves as experts in their own lives and builds on those strengths.
His background includes work in GP surgeries and counselling organisations across the UK.
Background and approach
That hands-on experience exposed him to a wide range of problems, from anxiety and stress to trauma and grief. He uses that experience to shape clear goals and manageable steps in therapy. In practice he uses cognitive behavioural techniques to help change unhelpful thinking and behaviour.
Client-Centred Therapy is used to create a calm, listening space where people can reflect. Solution-Focused ideas are applied when people want short-term, goal-driven work. Damian also pays attention to issues such as addiction, anger, self-esteem and sleep difficulties.
He supports people dealing with relationship and intimacy-related concerns, parenting strain, career stress and cultural or immigration challenges. Sessions are offered in English and Igbo to suit different needs. People can expect a collaborative process that balances practical tools with empathic listening.
Damian aims to help people find clearer ways to cope, make decisions and feel more in control of everyday life.
What Damian works with
How Damian works
Listed by Damian among the ways they work.
Listed by Damian among the ways they work.
Listed by Damian among the ways they work.
Listed by Damian among the ways they work.
Sessions & fees
How Damian’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening without judgement and helping people understand their own thoughts and feelings. Online sessions using this approach give space to reflect, be heard, and build confidence to make changes.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions and teaches practical techniques to change unhelpful patterns. Delivering CBT online makes it easy to practise specific skills between sessions and review progress together.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Damian will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, then try ways of working that fit the person. That decision is made together and can be adjusted as therapy progresses.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful for a face-to-face feel, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging lets people write when it fits their day. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, family or travel, while keeping the focus on practical progress and steady support.
| 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
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Igbo
