Sacha Akinyemi
Compassionate practical support for everyday struggles
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About Sacha
Sacha Akinyemi helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief and relationship strains. She also supports those dealing with parenting pressures, low self-esteem, motivation struggles and life changes. Sacha presents a calm, respectful approach and aims to make the first step feel manageable for anyone reaching out.
Sacha is a BACP clinician with eight years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She adapts conversations and plans to suit each person's needs rather than using a one-size-fits-all method.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps you can try between meetings as well as understanding what matters to you. Her style is warm and straightforward. She pays attention to both current problems and the patterns that keep them returning.
That can include how family history, relationships and day-to-day choices interact with mood, stress and confidence. She draws on client-centred ways of working to prioritise your concerns and on solution-focused ideas to set short-term goals. Systemic thinking helps her consider how wider relationships and roles affect difficulties such as adoption, blended family issues, communication problems or fatherhood concerns.
People can expect a collaborative process that balances talking through feelings with practical problem-solving. Sacha aims to empower clients to make steady changes and to build skills they can use after therapy ends.
At a glance
- Years practising
- 8
- Registered with
- BACP
- Registration number
- 380405
- Languages
- English
- Approaches include
- Client-Centered Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Systemic Therapy
- How sessions happen
- Online, by video, phone or messages
Details are as listed on Sacha's public professional profile. You can check any number with the professional body.
What Sacha works with
Everything Sacha lists, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Sacha lists
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How Sacha works online
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss your goals and preferences and together you will try methods that fit your situation. That means checking in about what helps and adjusting the plan as you go so the work stays relevant to your needs.
Confirm the available session options before booking because the biography does not list formats. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when that suits a day's schedule. It can also allow people to meet from locations that are more convenient, and it may make regular attendance easier when balancing work, parenting or caregiving commitments.
Questions and answers
What kinds of problems can be brought to therapy?
Sacha supports people with stress, anxiety, depression and coping with life changes. She also works with relationship concerns, grief, parenting pressures and body image or eating-related issues.
How would she work with someone feeling stuck?
Her approach is practical and person-led. She listens to what matters to you, sets small goals together and tries tools that fit your day-to-day life.
What background does she have?
She has eight years of professional experience in the United Kingdom helping people with stress, motivation, self-esteem and grief among other concerns.
What credential does she hold and where is she based?
She is a BACP professional and practises in the United Kingdom.
Can sessions be held in other languages or countries?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
Which session formats are available?
Please confirm current session options before booking, as the biography does not list specific formats.
How are fees handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
What should I do to begin therapy?
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