Benedicta Sanio Ala-Oborie, BACP
Compassionate psychotherapist using body-attuned methods
About Benedicta
Benedicta Sanio Ala-Oborie is a psychotherapist who works from a compassionate, person-first approach. She holds BACP registration, and she brings four years of practice to sessions. Benedicta aims to create a calm space where people can talk about loss, stress and relationship strain without feeling judged.
She uses somatic methods alongside talking therapies to help people notice how the body and emotions connect. Breath work and mindfulness are offered when helpful to manage anxiety, distress and physical tension.
Background and approach
Benedicta combines these with client-centred and psychodynamic ideas to shape each session around the person in front of her. People come for many concerns including grief, anxiety, depression, trauma and issues with self-esteem. She also supports people dealing with eating and body image difficulties, chronic illness, attachment and abandonment worries, and relationship or intimacy-related problems.
Minor and complex life changes are covered as well, from parenting strains to work stress. Sessions focus on understanding what has happened and finding practical ways forward. Benedicta pays attention to patterns in relationships and to how past experiences affect current feelings.
Conversations are steady and paced to fit each person’s needs. Her style is warm and non-judgemental, aiming to help people feel seen and understood. To begin, users follow the site’s Start Therapy flow and complete a short matching questionnaire to arrange sessions according to availability.
How Benedicta's approaches translate to online therapy
Benedicta blends somatic methods with client-centred and emotionally-focused ways of working to support people online. Somatic therapy invites attention to bodily sensations and breath, helping when anxiety, chronic pain or past trauma show up in the body. Client-centred work focuses on building a trusting relationship and following the person’s lead, which helps with self-esteem and life changes. Emotionally-Focused Therapy concentrates on understanding and shifting emotional responses, useful for relationship strain and attachment concerns.Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. Benedicta will discuss what feels most useful and adapt the approach to a person’s goals and preferences. This is done collaboratively, so sessions change as needs evolve.
Online sessions offer practical benefits like flexibility and easier access from home. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be quieter for those who prefer not to be on camera, and live chat or text messaging suit people who find writing easier in the moment. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around daily life while keeping the focus on steady, paced work.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English