Sonia Roberts
Calm practical counselling for everyday struggles
About Sonia
Sonia Roberts is a counsellor who draws on Client-Centred, Cognitive Behavioural and psychodynamic ideas to help people manage stress, anxiety and low mood. She is BACP accredited and brings three years of professional therapeutic experience. Sonia writes in a calm, straightforward way and works with people who need practical support and space to talk.
Before training in counselling she spent many years in social care, and that background shaped how she listens.
Background and approach
Sonia describes herself as patient and non-judgemental. She uses that steadiness to help people feel understood and to start making changes. In sessions she often begins by helping people make sense of what brings them to therapy now.
That might mean looking at current patterns of thought and behaviour with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or exploring past experiences that still affect feelings today with psychodynamic ideas. Client-Centred approaches guide the pace so the person leads the conversation. Sonia works with a range of concerns including family and parenting struggles, self-esteem, feelings of abandonment or isolation, and relationship communication problems.
She also supports people facing chronic illness, caregiver stress, body image worries, and life transitions such as divorce and separation. Her style is grounded and practical. Sessions aim to build clearer thinking about problems, small experiments to try between meetings, and time to reflect on emotional patterns.
Sonia encourages realistic goals and steady progress. People who want straightforward, empathetic support are likely to find her approach accessible. She offers online formats and can work with clients in English from the United Kingdom and internationally.
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches online and how they help
Sonia blends Client-Centred Therapy with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and psychodynamic ideas to shape online work. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting, giving the person space to lead so they can make sense of their feelings and priorities. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at patterns of thought and behaviour and uses small practical experiments to reduce anxiety and low mood. Psychodynamic ideas explore how past experiences and relationships influence how someone feels and acts today, which can help with attachment or repeated relationship patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Sonia will talk through options and try methods that suit a person's goals and preferences. That collaborative process means approaches are adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online formats make therapy easier to fit into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when seeing expressions matters. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can work well for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer typing, want to reflect between messages, or need more frequent brief contact. These options increase flexibility and help people access therapy from different locations and schedules.
| 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
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
