Katya Olateju
Compassionate person-centred counselling for life challenges
About Katya
Katya Olateju uses a person-centred approach to help people feel heard and understood. She draws on her 16 years of experience and NCPS credential to tailor conversations to each person's situation. Katya works in English and French and sees international clients from the United Kingdom and beyond.
She focuses on practical problems like stress, anxiety, sleep and eating concerns, low self-esteem, motivation and career difficulties. She also supports people facing relationship and intimacy-related issues, family problems, adoption and foster care matters, and the impacts of trauma and abuse.
Background and approach
Sessions can address anger, coping with life changes and questions about life purpose and midlife crisis. Katya blends approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-based ideas and emotionally-focused techniques with mindfulness practices. In sessions she encourages action that matches personal values and helps people notice unhelpful patterns.
Conversations are adapted to what each person needs in the moment. Her style is warm and respectful, aiming to make difficult topics easier to talk about. She focuses on building understanding and practical next steps rather than lengthy theory.
Parents can expect straightforward guidance about parenting strain and blended family issues, without assumptions about family size or structure. People often start by naming one or two problems they want to change. Katya then helps set small goals and checks progress each week.
This step-by-step focus supports steady improvement and clearer decision making over time.
What Katya works with
How Katya works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Katya commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people identify what matters to them and take small, manageable steps toward those values. ACT focuses on noticing thoughts and choosing actions that fit long-term goals rather than getting stuck in unhelpful thinking.She also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early connections shape current relationships and emotional responses. This approach can help when people want clearer, more supported ways of relating and less reactivity in close relationships.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will explore your goals, preferences and practical needs, then suggest what to try first. You and the therapist will adjust the plan together as you see what helps and what does not.
Online sessions can be held by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different situations. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit a break at work or use less bandwidth, and messaging allows short check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting around daily life.
| 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
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English, French
