Benedicta Sanio Ala-Oborie, BACP

Benedicta Sanio Ala-Oborie is a registered psychotherapist with the BACP and practices in the United Kingdom. With four years of clinical experience, she offers person-focused care that draws on client-centered, psychodynamic, and mindfulness-informed approaches to support people through emotional and relational challenges.

She works with a wide range of concerns including stress and anxiety, grief and loss, family and parenting difficulties, relationship and intimacy-related issues, trauma and abuse, depression, eating and body image struggles, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and issues related to identity and sexuality. Her additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment concerns, communication and control issues, commitment and forgiveness difficulties, and work with consensual kink and alternative sex cultures where relevant to the client.

Benedicta’s style is warm, respectful, and non-judgmental. She tailors therapeutic work to each person, attending to their unique history, needs, and goals and blending relational psychodynamic understanding with person-centered listening and mindfulness practices. Although she does not diagnose, she can work with an existing diagnosis to help clients understand their experiences and find meaning.

She aims to create a compassionate space for people ready to make changes and cope more effectively with life’s challenges, supporting clients as they explore choices and build resilience.

Integrating therapeutic approaches for effective online care

Client-centered therapy emphasizes a respectful, non-directive stance in which the therapist offers empathic listening and unconditional positive regard. This approach helps people who need a safe space to explore feelings, build self-understanding, and strengthen confidence in their own choices.

Psychodynamic therapy focuses on understanding how past experiences and relational patterns influence current feelings and behaviours. It can be helpful for people working through attachment issues, patterns in relationships, unresolved grief, and deep-seated emotional difficulties.

Mindfulness therapy teaches present-focused awareness and practical techniques to reduce rumination and manage stress and anxiety. These practices can complement insight-oriented work and support regulation of strong emotions.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Benedicta works collaboratively with clients to identify which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they review what is helping and adapt the work as therapy progresses.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can take place by video call or phone, and some work can be continued through live chat or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives, maintain continuity when schedules change, and access registered professionals from different locations.