About Sonia
Sonia "Nina" Sweeney is a counsellor who aims to help people manage anxiety and stress. She introduces herself warmly and focuses on making sessions straightforward and helpful. Nina speaks English and works with adults who are dealing with a variety of difficulties.
Her style is calm and direct, aimed at helping people feel more able to cope day to day. Nina draws on nine years of professional experience in the United Kingdom.
Background and approach
She holds membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and is an accredited member of the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society, NCPS. These credentials are part of her background and practice in the UK. Her work covers issues such as trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem, sleeping problems, parenting stress and compassion fatigue.
Nina also supports people with relationship worries, anger, coping with life changes and a wide range of attachment and abandonment concerns. She uses approaches that focus on the person’s experience and on trauma-related work. In sessions she aims to create an open space where people can talk through their thoughts and feelings without judgement.
Conversations typically focus on what is troubling someone now and practical ways to reduce distress. Nina pays attention to day-to-day challenges, such as sleep and stress, as well as deeper patterns like attachment and codependency. Nina offers therapy in formats that suit different lives, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging.
People who want to begin are asked to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to availability.
How Sonia's approaches work online
Sonia uses client-centred work to place the person’s experience at the heart of therapy. This means the counsellor listens closely and follows what matters most to the client, helping them name feelings and find practical ways to cope with anxiety and stress.She also uses trauma-focused work when past events are affecting someone now. That approach looks at how traumatic experiences shape current reactions and supports people to process distressing memories and reduce their impact on day-to-day life.
Choosing the right way to work together is collaborative. Sonia will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful before settling on an approach. The first sessions often focus on immediate concerns and on finding a comfortable pace for deeper work.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that is helpful. Phone sessions suit people who want a simpler connection or who have limited bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging can be used for brief check-ins, shorter sessions or ongoing support between longer appointments, making it easier to fit therapy around work and family commitments.
Registered or accredited professionals, including this counsellor, commonly use these formats to make therapy more accessible while working to meet each person’s needs and goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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