About Sonia
Dr. Sonia Smith is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in New York. She brings 25 years of clinical experience and focuses on anxiety as one of several common concerns she addresses.
Her style is direct and practical, aimed at helping people manage stress, relationships, grief, depression, and other life challenges. She uses approaches that center on the person and on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Sessions often include plain talk about what’s causing distress and small, doable steps to try between meetings.
Background and approach
Motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques are used to boost motivation and build forward momentum. Her background includes long experience in community and clinical settings working with trauma, domestic violence, addiction, and bereavement. This history informs how she listens for safety concerns and for the practical needs that come up after loss or crisis.
She also brings experience addressing family of origin issues, blended family dynamics, and parenting strains. Dr. Smith helps clients facing identity and relationship questions, including LGBT concerns and intimacy-related issues.
She also works with people coping with life changes such as divorce, immigration challenges, or end-of-life caregiving. Her work often combines counseling with coaching tools to clarify next steps. Sessions are offered in English and delivered online by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
Dr. Smith uses a subscription model for sessions that can be canceled at any time and asks new clients to complete a short matching questionnaire to begin.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening without judgment and helping people find their own solutions. Online sessions let a therapist reflect what clients say and help them organize thoughts about anxiety, relationships, or grief in plain language.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In online sessions this often means identifying unhelpful thought patterns, practicing different responses, and setting small homework tasks to test new behaviors between meetings.
Motivational Interviewing helps people resolve mixed feelings about change. It is short-term and collaborative, useful when someone wants to cut back on an addiction, make a health change, or follow through on a relationship or parenting goal.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. This is a collaborative process that can be adjusted as needs change.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging - make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video is good for fuller conversation, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat and text are useful for brief check-ins or when writing helps process thoughts. These options allow people to continue regular contact and make steady progress without lengthy travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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