Gifty Ogene, NCPS

Gifty Ogene is a counsellor and psychotherapist working in the United Kingdom. She has 12 years of experience supporting people with anxiety, depression, grief, relationship problems and other emotional concerns. Gifty holds the NCPS credential and uses a person-centred way of working to build a respectful therapeutic relationship.

She takes a practical, down-to-earth approach in sessions. Gifty listens without judgement and helps people to talk through painful events and everyday stresses. She pays attention to each person’s culture and beliefs when shaping how they work together.

Gifty has particular experience supporting people who are grieving after a bereavement connected with hospice care. She has helped relatives, carers and friends to work through shock, loss and the reorganisation that follows a death.

She also has experience addressing relationship difficulties, including communication problems, infidelity and money-related conflicts. Gifty blends awareness of past patterns with tools to change unhelpful thinking and behaviour in the present.

Her practice draws on attachment-based ideas, client-centred work and cognitive behavioural techniques to offer both understanding and practical steps. Sessions aim to increase self-awareness, improve communication and strengthen coping skills. Gifty welcomes clients from different backgrounds and offers sessions in English.

People come to her for help with parenting stress, addiction concerns, anger, self-esteem, career shifts and coping with major life changes. She accepts international clients and uses a range of online session formats to fit different needs.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in close relationships and how early bonds affect current interactions. Online sessions can help people notice recurring relationship styles and practise new ways of connecting and communicating.

Client-centred therapy emphasises listening and empathy. In this approach the counsellor follows the person's pace and helps them feel heard, which can be achieved through video or phone sessions as well as written check-ins.

Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts influence feelings and behaviour and teaches practical skills to change them. CBT techniques such as thought records, behavioural experiments and problem-solving adapt well to online formats and can be supported with worksheets or chat notes.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences and agree together which methods to try. That collaborative planning can happen in the first few sessions and be adjusted over time.

Online therapy offers flexibility for different schedules and circumstances. Video calls are useful for richer face-to-face dialogue, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can support shorter check-ins, and text messaging allows ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel and to use approaches that match each person's routine and comfort.