Dumebi Onyejiaka, BACP

Dumebi Onyejiaka is a BACP counsellor in the United Kingdom with five years of professional experience. She works with people facing relationship strains, family disagreements, parenting stress, low self-esteem, anxiety, depression and grief. Dumebi also supports those dealing with trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, anger and challenges around intimacy and commitment.

She approaches sessions from a person-centred place, treating the client as the expert on their life. Conversations focus on what is happening now and what the client wants to change. She listens for patterns around attachment, control and codependency and helps people notice how those patterns affect day-to-day choices.

Sessions often look at past relationships and early experiences to understand current feelings and reactions. Dumebi uses psychodynamic ideas to map repeated dynamics, and attachment-based ideas to explore how people connect and distance from others. Motivational interviewing and existential themes are used when clients want clearer direction or struggle with life decisions.

In practice, Dumebi aims for straightforward conversations that help people try new ways of setting limits and asking for what they need. She helps break big problems into small steps so change feels doable. Practical topics include boundary-setting, coping with separation or divorce, and managing caregiving strain.

Her work suits people who keep putting others first and want to find steadier ways of relating. Sessions are conducted in English and she accepts international clients. Before booking, clients should confirm current session options.

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