Sidonia Stiles
Experienced counsellor for relationship and grief work
About Sidonia
Sidonia Stiles offers calm, grounded support for people facing stress, anxiety, grief and relationship strain. She introduces simple ways to talk about difficult feelings and everyday problems. Sidonia works in English and Portuguese and brings 27 years of experience to her counselling practice in the United Kingdom.
Sidonia uses approaches that help people understand how their past shapes present reactions. She often explores family patterns and upbringing to spot repeating conflicts.
Background and approach
Genograms are one tool she uses to map those family connections and make sense of recurring issues. Her background includes ten years as a group worker with young people in residential services. That work involved practical support around challenging family dynamics and helping people navigate difficult relationships.
This experience informs her relaxed, down-to-earth way of talking through problems. Sidonia trained with a Higher National Diploma in Person Centred counselling and later completed a Level 5 Diploma in Relationship Therapy with the Counselling & Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
In sessions she focuses on what matters to the individual, whether that is coping with loss, managing low mood, working through intimacy concerns or addressing addictive behaviours. She also offers support for issues such as trauma, sleep difficulties, parenting strain and career stress. People choose Sidonia for practical, conversational counselling that connects past experiences to current challenges.
Her approach aims to help clients make small, useful changes and feel more able to cope with life as it unfolds.
What Sidonia works with
How Sidonia works
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Sessions & fees
Working with attachment, acceptance and practical skills online
Sidonia uses approaches such as Attachment-Based Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to help people understand relationship patterns and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. Attachment work looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and helps people notice repeating patterns. CBT focuses on practical steps to shift thinking and behaviour, which can reduce anxiety and improve sleep.She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which encourages clear values and taking action even when difficult feelings remain. Together these approaches give options for understanding emotional history and building small, achievable changes. Finding the right mix is part of the work; Sidonia will discuss goals and preferences and try different tools to see what helps most in each case.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet, using video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video sessions let people read non-verbal cues, while phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and messaging suit short check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit counselling around work, family and other commitments.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 27 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
