Dorothi Oviosu, BACP

Dorothi Oviosu is a counsellor who helps people facing midlife challenges and other life shifts. She supports those dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship and family issues, grief, addiction and mood concerns. Dorothi works from a warm, open stance to help people feel heard and start making changes.

She brings nine years of practice and works within the BACP ethical framework. Dorothi uses accessible tools in sessions, such as life graphs, sand work, blob family and stress-relief exercises to make thinking visible and manageable. Sessions focus on small steps that build choices and clarity.

Her style is person-centred and collaborative. She aims to give people autonomy and a clearer map of their next steps. Conversations are direct but kind, aimed at helping someone notice things they had not seen before and try out different ways of coping.

Dorothi incorporates techniques from attachment-based approaches, cognitive behavioural methods and mindfulness where they fit the person's needs. She also draws on ideas from dialectical work to help with emotion regulation and relationship patterns. The mix of approaches is tailored to each person rather than imposed.

Many clients come for help with life changes, career strain, parenting stress, intimacy concerns or questions linked to neurodiversity and attachment. Dorothi invites people to take the first step and make a practical plan that fits their life and goals.

How Dorothi’s approaches translate to online therapy

Attachment-based work looks at how past relationships shape current patterns. It helps people notice habits in close relationships and try different, healthier ways of relating. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, focuses on how thoughts, feelings and behaviours link together and teaches clear strategies for changing unhelpful patterns. Mindfulness therapy brings attention to present-moment experience and simple practices for reducing rumination and stress.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Dorothi will discuss goals and preferences and choose methods together with the client. That way the plan fits the person rather than the person fitting a single technique.

If you are considering online sessions, please confirm the current session options before booking as the biography does not list specific formats. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let people use practical exercises at home, practise skills between sessions and bring therapy into the routines they want to change.