John Odutemu
Supportive therapist for life and relationship challenges
About John
John Odutemu welcomes people who are feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure where to begin. He writes in plain terms and aims to make early sessions straightforward. He acknowledges that reaching out for help takes courage and offers a steady, respectful presence to start the work.
He has 12 years of professional experience and is registered with the HCPC, the Health and Care Professions Council. John draws on practical talking therapies to address a wide range of difficulties.
Background and approach
He talks through problems such as depression, anxiety, stress, grief, and low self-esteem in ways that feel manageable. John also supports people facing relationship and intimacy-related concerns, sexual health questions, and parenting strain. He helps people who are dealing with addictions, emotion regulation issues, bipolar disorder, or challenges after trauma and abuse.
Additional focus areas include body image, attachment concerns, caregiving strain, chronic illness, and neurodiversity-related issues. His approach is collaborative and tailored. Sessions focus on what matters to the individual and on simple, practical steps to make life easier.
Methods include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, attachment-based listening, client-centred dialogue, and skills from Dialectical Behaviour Therapy. John offers sessions in English and accepts people from outside the UK. He works via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and scheduling follows the therapist's availability.
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Sessions & fees
Practical approaches for online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then focus on actions that match what matters to them; it can be useful for anxiety, depression and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and teaches skills to change patterns that cause distress; it often helps with mood, worry and sleep. Attachment-Based Therapy examines early relationship patterns and how they affect current connections, supporting work on intimacy and relational trust.Finding the right approach is part of the work. John will talk with the client about goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they choose or combine methods so sessions feel relevant and practical rather than one-size-fits-all.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video works well for a full conversation and visual cues, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and messaging is useful for quick check-ins or when a shorter touchpoint fits a busy day. These options make it easier to fit counselling around work, caregiving and travel.
| 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
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 12 years
- Registered with
- HCPC
- Languages
- English
