Sonia Spina
Warm counsellor for life transitions
About Sonia
Sonia Spina works with adults who are struggling with anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, relationship strain and major life changes. She is approachable and aims to make first steps feel less daunting. Sonia holds a BACP credential, which she uses to guide a thoughtful, person-focused way of working.
Sonia offers short, steady conversations that help people name what is causing distress. She listens without judgement and helps people talk through painful memories, grief or confusion.
Background and approach
Her manner is warm and direct, and she aims to make sessions feel straightforward and useful. Her practice draws on client-centred methods that place the person's experience at the heart of each session. This means conversations are guided by the client's priorities rather than a fixed agenda.
She also uses psychodynamic ideas to look at patterns that may come from past relationships and early life events. Sonia has five years of professional experience and has supported people facing bereavement, panic attacks, difficulties with attachment and challenges around identity and self-worth. She also works with people affected by hoarding behaviours, infidelity, separation and feelings of emptiness or dissociation.
Sessions can include talking through difficult memories, reflecting on relationship patterns, and building steadier ways to cope with day-to-day stress. Sonia shares from her own training experience to normalise the hard parts of being a therapy client. She seeks to combine honesty, empathy and practical focus to help people move forward.
What Sonia works with
How Sonia works
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Sessions & fees
How Sonia’s approaches translate to online therapy
Sonia works using client-centred therapy, which puts the person's experience at the centre of each session. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting and following what matters most to the client, and it can help with anxiety, low self-worth and relationship worries.She also uses psychodynamic ideas to explore recurring patterns that may come from past relationships or early life experiences. That perspective can help people understand why certain reactions keep appearing and open up different ways of relating and coping.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work itself. Sonia will discuss goals and preferences together and adapt methods to suit what the client wants to achieve. That collaborative process helps find a good fit rather than imposing a single method.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging to offer practical flexibility. Video calls are useful for in-depth conversations with visual connection, phone sessions can fit into a short break or use less bandwidth, and chat or messaging can suit quick check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work and daily life.
| 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
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- LGBT
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
