Sofia Tanzanu
Compassionate integrative counsellor for lasting change
About Sofia
Sofia Tanzanu works from an integrative approach, drawing on attachment-focused ideas, client-centred practice, and cognitive behavioural techniques. She aims to tailor how she works to each person’s needs. The tone is warm and straightforward.
Sofia speaks plainly about problems and practical ways to change them. She has eight years of experience and holds BACP accreditation, which means she follows the British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists' standards. Many people come to her feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, grief, or the long shadow of past abuse.
Background and approach
Others seek help for low self-esteem, relationship difficulties or major life changes. In sessions she listens without rushing. Conversations explore how past patterns and current pressures connect.
Practical CBT tools are used where they help to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. Attachment ideas help people understand close relationships and patterns of closeness and distance. Sofia also supports people dealing with chronic pain, illness or disability, feelings of emptiness, cultural adjustment and seasonal low mood.
She works with issues such as guilt, shame, isolation and communication problems in relationships. The aim is to make therapy useful and manageable for everyday life. Therapy is paced to the individual.
Sofia focuses on what matters most to the person in front of her, helping them build resilience, make clearer choices and find workarounds that fit their life.
What Sofia works with
How Sofia works
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Listed by Sofia among the ways they work.
Listed by Sofia among the ways they work.
Sessions & fees
How Sofia’s approaches work online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connections. It helps people understand why they might feel anxious or withdrawn in close relationships and find different ways of relating. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person’s own experience and pace; the counsellor offers empathy and reflection so the client can make sense of their feelings and choices. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) teaches straightforward skills to notice and change unhelpful thinking and behaviour that keep problems going.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sofia will discuss goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they will decide which ideas and techniques to use, and adjust them as therapy progresses so the plan fits the client.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls are close to an in-person conversation and work well for deeper work. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging suit people who prefer written communication or want flexible, ongoing contact between sessions. These formats offer practical options to keep therapy consistent even when schedules change.
| 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
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
