Gifty Ogene
Compassionate counsellor focused on practical change
About Gifty
Gifty Ogene is a counsellor and psychotherapist with 12 years of experience. She works in the United Kingdom and uses a thoughtful, person-centred style to help people facing emotional difficulties. She meets people where they are and listens without judgement.
Sessions are practical and focused on everyday change. Gifty adapts her approach to each person’s culture and values. Her background includes supporting people through bereavement and loss, including relatives and carers connected to hospice care.
Background and approach
She has helped clients work through the shock and disorganisation that can follow a death, and to find ways to reorganise life afterwards. She also has experience helping people with relationship challenges. This includes work around communication problems, infidelity, unforgiveness and financial strain.
Gifty blends attention to past patterns with present-day skills to improve how people connect with others. Gifty uses a mix of person-centred counselling, psychodynamic ideas and cognitive behavioural techniques. That combination helps people explore how past experiences affect current behaviour and then try practical steps to change unhelpful thinking.
Her practice covers a wide range of concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, parenting strain, anger, self-esteem and career changes. She also works with issues like attachment wounds, codependency and body image.
What Gifty works with
How Gifty works
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Sessions & fees
How therapeutic approaches work online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early bonds shape current relationships and emotional responses. Online sessions can explore patterns of closeness, abandonment fears and attachment needs so people can change how they relate to others.Client-Centred Therapy emphasises being heard and accepted. The counsellor offers empathy and respect while the person leads the conversation, which helps build trust and personal insight over time.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts affect feelings and actions and then tries practical steps to change unhelpful thinking. It is useful for anxiety, depression and coping with life changes.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, needs and preferences and together agree which methods to try. That makes the process collaborative and open to adjustment as priorities shift.
Online sessions offer practical benefits for fitting therapy into busy lives. Video calls let people work face to face when a visual connection helps. Phone sessions are a lighter option that can fit into a short break and use less bandwidth. Live chat or text-based messaging can be useful for brief check-ins, tracking progress between sessions or for people who prefer writing to speaking.
Many registered or accredited professionals deliver effective care online, and the range of formats makes therapy more flexible and easier to fit around daily commitments.
| 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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
