Olubunmi Jones, BACP

Counsellor and member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) with four years' experience, Olubunmi Jones works in the United Kingdom with people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, sleep problems and depression. She also helps with parenting pressures, self-esteem and coping with life changes, and she has experience supporting those affected by compassion fatigue.

Olubunmi uses a relational approach in her work. She invites clients to talk about difficult experiences and to notice how those experiences affect day-to-day life. Sessions focus on what is happening now, and how past relationships and events shape current feelings and behaviour.

Her practice draws on attachment-based ideas alongside client-centred and existential perspectives. That means she pays attention to how close relationships influence emotional patterns, listens with an aim to understand each person’s viewpoint, and looks at the broader questions people raise about purpose and meaning.

Mindfulness techniques and narrative elements are used when helpful to slow things down and to separate problems from the person who has them. Imago relationship ideas can come into play to reflect on how patterns repeat between partners or significant others.

Sessions are conversational and focused on practical ways to manage symptoms and reactions. Olubunmi encourages small experiments between sessions so people can test new ways of relating and coping. If you want to discuss practical next steps, she asks people to use the site booking flow to start the matching process.

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