Sonia Dugay
Calm, practical counselling for relationship and trauma concerns
About Sonia
Sonia Dugay offers calm, non-judgemental support for people facing relationship problems, anxiety, low self-esteem and the fallout from trauma. She works in a straightforward way, listening first and helping clients find practical steps forward. Sonia is a BACP counsellor with nine years' experience based in the United Kingdom.
People often come with concerns about intimacy, eating and body image, anger, parenting pressures or career uncertainty. Sonia has particular experience supporting survivors of sexual violence and those coping with attachment wounds, abandonment and family problems.
Background and approach
She also helps people dealing with divorce, blended-family issues and the complex feelings that follow DNA surprises. Her main way of working is client-centred counselling, which puts the client's perspective and choices at the heart of sessions.
She combines this with psychodynamic ideas that look at how earlier life experiences shape present reactions, and she uses solution-focused and trauma-informed tools when they suit the situation. Sonia aims for sessions that feel respectful and direct. She encourages people to talk through what is most worrying and to try small, achievable changes between meetings.
The emphasis is on practical steps that build confidence and reduce overwhelm. Outside work she values physical activity and finds walking or dancing helps her stay grounded. Sonia says she is open to different beliefs and cultural backgrounds and seeks to understand each person's values when they come to counselling.
What Sonia works with
How Sonia works
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Sessions & fees
How Sonia's approaches translate to online therapy
Sonia commonly uses client-centred counselling and trauma-focused methods in her work. Client-centred counselling involves listening closely to what matters to the person and shaping sessions around their priorities; this helps with problems like low self-esteem, relationship worries and life changes. Trauma-focused work looks at the impact of past harm and uses careful, paced techniques to help reduce symptoms and build coping skills.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Sonia will discuss what feels most useful and try ways of working that match a person's goals and preferences. She reviews progress together and adjusts the focus if something isn’t helping.
Online therapy makes these approaches practical and flexible. Video calls let people speak face to face and read expressions, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed, and live chat or text messaging suit those who prefer written communication or want frequent brief contact. These options help fit counselling around work, travel and family life while keeping the same therapeutic aims.
| 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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
