About Elly
Elly Oka is a counsellor who supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression and trauma. She also helps with relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, self-esteem and addiction-related issues. Her work includes practical help for sleep and eating problems, career change pressures and parenting strain.
Elly uses a client-centred style. She starts by listening to what matters most to each person. Conversations focus on small, practical steps and on noticing how the body and emotions are connected.
Background and approach
This includes gentle attention to bodily sensations alongside talking, in line with somatic-informed practice. Her background includes five years of professional work and registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Elly draws on a mix of approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based methods and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to match each person’s needs.
Sessions tend to be straightforward and collaborative. People set goals together and try techniques between meetings to see what helps. The emphasis is on clear, manageable changes rather than medical labels.
People can expect calm, patient guidance and practical tools to cope with life changes and emotional overwhelm. Elly welcomes people from different places and works with international clients via online formats to fit varied schedules.
How different approaches work online
Somatic-informed work brings gentle attention to body sensations and movement alongside talking. This can help when stress or trauma feels stuck in the body and supports people who notice strong physical reactions to emotions.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice thoughts and feelings without getting overwhelmed by them. It supports values-based goals and practical steps for living a more meaningful life despite difficult emotions.
Attachment-Based ideas look at how early relationships shape patterns in current ones. This can help people understand connection and communication challenges and practise new ways of relating.
Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with the client to identify which methods fit their needs, goals and preferences, and will adjust techniques as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments and allow people to connect from different locations. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt somatic, ACT and attachment-based methods to these formats so clients can practise skills between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- 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
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English