Gifty Ogene , NCPS

Gifty Ogene is a registered counsellor and psychotherapist who supports individuals and couples with their emotional wellbeing. She brings 12 years of professional experience and private sector practice to her work, and she approaches each person with respect for their culture and beliefs while maintaining a non-judgemental stance. She holds the NCPS credential, a professional counselling and psychotherapy qualification that reflects her clinical training and commitment to the field.

Gifty has extensive experience offering bereavement support, having spent ten years working with relatives, carers, and friends of people who died in hospice care. She assists clients through the stages of loss, shock, disorganization, reorganization, and recovery, tailoring her support to each person’s needs. She also has five years of focused work with couples, addressing conflicts, communication challenges, infidelity, unforgiveness, and financial disagreements.

Across her practice she regularly supports people dealing with anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, trauma, addiction, grief, and a range of life changes. Her therapeutic style draws on person-centered principles to foster a growth-promoting relationship, psychodynamic ideas to increase awareness of past patterns affecting present relationships, and cognitive behavioral therapy to identify and challenge thoughts that hold clients back. She aims to build a professional therapeutic relationship, maintain clear boundaries, and create an environment that promotes recovery and personal growth.

Therapeutic approaches and online sessions

Gifty Ogene integrates client-centered work into online sessions by creating a supportive, non-judgemental space where the client’s experience and goals guide the process. This approach emphasizes empathy, acceptance, and the core conditions that help people explore feelings and make personal changes, and it is often helpful for issues like low mood, stress, self-esteem, and navigating life transitions.

She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help clients identify unhelpful thinking patterns and experiment with practical strategies to manage anxiety, depression, and certain addictive or avoidance behaviors. Attachment-Based Therapy is used to explore how early relationship patterns influence current connections and intimacy, which can be useful for addressing abandonment, attachment difficulties, and relationship conflict.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic journey and Gifty works collaboratively with each person to determine what fits best based on their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they evaluate methods and adapt the work as progress unfolds.

Online therapy options - including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - offer flexibility for scheduling and access from different locations. These formats allow clients to engage in ongoing support while balancing work, family, and other responsibilities, and therapists adjust techniques to suit the communication method and the client’s comfort level.