Sonia "Nina" Sweeney
Compassionate support for stress and trauma
About Sonia
Sonia "Nina" Sweeney offers straightforward support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression or life changes. She is named Nina and draws on nine years of professional experience to help people who are struggling with low self-esteem, grief, sleeping problems, anger, parenting strain and trauma-related concerns. Her approachable style aims to make early steps feel manageable and clear.
She trained and works with client-centred methods that focus on the person’s priorities.
Background and approach
She also uses trauma-focused therapy when past experiences are getting in the way of day-to-day life. Sessions are practical and talk-based, and Nina helps people set small goals to test what works between meetings. Nina has the BACP credential, which stands for the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, and the NCPS credential from the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society.
She lives and practises in the United Kingdom and offers sessions in English, including for people outside the UK. Her practice pays attention to relationship difficulties, including communication and commitment issues, blended family challenges, and the effects of separation or domestic violence.
She also works with problems such as codependency, avoidance, dissociation and feelings of emptiness, always tailoring the pace to each person. People can expect a calm, non-judgemental atmosphere where practical steps are combined with listening. Nina helps clients build coping skills, make sense of painful experiences and try out new ways of managing everyday pressures.
What Sonia works with
How Sonia works
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Sessions & fees
How Sonia Nina brings client-centred and trauma work online
Sonia uses client-centred therapy to place the person’s needs at the heart of sessions. This approach means conversations centre on what the client wants to change, with the therapist listening, reflecting and helping the person find their own solutions. It suits worries such as low self-esteem, relationship communication and coping with life changes. Trauma-focused therapy is used when past events continue to cause distress. This approach helps people make sense of difficult memories and learn ways to reduce their impact on daily life. It is aimed at issues like abuse, dissociation, abandonment and other trauma-related problems. Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals, try different ways of working and review what helps most. Together they agree the pace and methods that feel most useful. Online therapy makes regular sessions easier to fit into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions suit people with lower bandwidth and those who prefer not to be on camera, and live chat or text-based messaging can be used for shorter check-ins or when writing feels more natural. These options offer flexibility and make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around work, family or travel commitments.| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| 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
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Registered with
- BACP, NCPS
- Languages
- English
