About Sonia
Sonia Dugay is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who helps people facing anxiety and related concerns. She offers a calm, non-judgemental space where clients can talk about painful experiences and start to feel more hopeful. Sonia aims to listen first and follow the person's lead rather than impose solutions.
Sonia has nine years of practice experience, including work at a support centre for survivors of rape and sexual abuse.
Background and approach
That role brought repeated contact with issues such as anxiety, anger, low self-esteem, intimacy difficulties, eating problems and relationship strain. More recently she has worked in independent practice and supported people through life changes brought on by lockdowns and other pressures.
Her approach draws on Client-Centred Therapy, which focuses on listening and helping people find their own answers, and psychodynamic ideas that look at how early experiences can shape present feelings and behaviours. She also uses solution-focused and trauma-informed methods when they suit the client’s needs.
Sonia values movement and activity as parts of wellbeing and often encourages simple self-care such as walking or dance when appropriate. She is open to different cultural and religious perspectives and aims to treat each person with warmth and respect. People who come for help can expect a straightforward, steady style.
Sonia offers time to offload worries, talk through difficult memories and work together to identify small, practical steps forward.
How Sonia's approaches work online
Sonia uses Client-Centred Therapy to start. That means sessions focus on listening and helping clients find their own answers. It suits people who need a steady, accepting space to talk through anxiety or relationship worries.She also draws on Trauma-Focused Therapy when past harms are central to the distress. This approach addresses the impact of traumatic events and supports gradual ways of working through painful memories and reactions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sonia will discuss options with each person and decide together which methods fit best. The plan can change over time depending on your goals and how you respond to therapy.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video helps keep face-to-face contact when that matters. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or you prefer not to use video. Messaging or chat work well for shorter check-ins or people who want flexible, ongoing contact. These options make therapy more accessible and easier to fit around work, family and travel.
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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
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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