About Beatriz
Beatriz Zanichelli Sonego works from a compassionate, person-focused approach. She offers short- and longer-term therapy to adults who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, grief or relationship strain. Sessions are available online by video, phone, chat or messaging and are conducted in English and Portuguese.
Beatriz has 15 years of experience working across higher education, community services, healthcare and independent practice in the United Kingdom. She uses a mix of approaches to suit each person, including attachment-based, client-centred, cognitive behavioural and existential ideas.
Background and approach
This lets her tailor conversations around how someone thinks, feels and relates to others. In early sessions she focuses on understanding what matters most to the client. That includes practical patterns, past experiences that shape current reactions, and daily habits that keep difficulties going.
She aims to help people notice small changes that reduce anxiety and improve coping. Therapy can cover loss, self-esteem, intimacy and many kinds of life transitions. Other common topics she works with include eating concerns, career stress, compassion fatigue and trauma or abuse.
Beatriz also offers support around issues linked to sexual expression and attachment difficulties. The first meeting is an initial session to see if the working relationship feels right and to agree aims. Sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time and fees vary with location and therapist availability.
People who would like to begin are asked to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule according to availability.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Beatriz combines attachment-based thinking and cognitive behavioural work to help people manage anxiety, relationships and the effects of past hurts. Attachment-based work looks at how past relational patterns affect current feelings and reactions and helps people notice and change those patterns. Cognitive behavioural therapy focuses on how thoughts and behaviours keep worry or low mood going and teaches practical strategies to shift them.Finding the most helpful approach is part of the process. She treats therapy as a collaboration and will explore your goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together you can try different ways of working and pick the tools that feel most useful for the issues you bring.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls are useful when face-to-face style connection helps the work. Phone sessions can be lower bandwidth and easier to fit into a busy day. Live chat or messaging can support brief check-ins, reflection between sessions or a different way to express difficult thoughts. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments while working with registered or accredited professionals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
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