About John
John Odutemu is a counsellor with twelve years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. He supports people who are dealing with anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties and struggles with addiction. John works in English and accepts international clients, offering flexible session formats to suit different lives.
He draws on somatic approaches alongside talking therapies to help people notice how emotions appear in the body and to develop practical ways to respond.
Background and approach
He also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and elements of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to help people clarify values, change unhelpful patterns, and build coping skills. John aims to meet each person where they are. He tailors conversations and treatment plans to the individual rather than applying a fixed formula.
He emphasises respect, sensitivity and compassion in sessions, and helps people take small steps towards their goals. His experience covers a wide range of concerns including grief, self-esteem, stress, eating and sleeping issues, parenting strain, anger, career challenges and adjustment to life changes. Additional focus areas include attachment issues, autism and neurodiversity, chronic pain and caregiver stress.
Sessions can include practical exercises, breath and body awareness, values work and behavioural experiments. John encourages people to notice what helps them feel steadier, then build those practices into daily life. He acknowledges that starting therapy takes courage and aims to make the process clear and manageable.
How somatic and evidence-based approaches work online
John combines somatic work with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Attachment-Based ideas to support change. Somatic work helps people track bodily signals - such as tightness, breath or posture - and use simple movement or breathing to reduce overwhelm. ACT focuses on clarifying what matters to you and building small actions that match those values, which can help with anxiety, low mood and addictive patterns. Attachment-based ideas look at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and offer ways to practise different ways of relating.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the journey. The therapist will work collaboratively to identify which methods feel most useful, adjusting the plan as you learn what helps. This means sessions can include talking, guided body-awareness exercises or practical homework depending on what you prefer.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to engage through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family or mobility limits, and allow people to practise techniques between sessions in their everyday environment.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also works with
- 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 counseling
- 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-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior 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
- Licensed
- Languages
- English