About Sonia
Sonia Rodrigues-Marto is a licensed professional counselor and licensed marriage and family therapist in New Jersey with 21 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, navigate relationship and family challenges, and recover from trauma and abuse. Sonia approaches care with a straightforward, respectful style that centers the client's own knowledge and strengths.
She uses practical tools and gentle guidance to help people make changes that matter.
Background and approach
In sessions she listens closely, reflects what she hears, and offers strategies that fit a person's daily life. That might include ways to handle worry, improve communication, or cope with big life transitions. Sonia draws on several approaches, including cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thinking, acceptance and commitment ideas to build values-driven action, and emotionally-focused work to improve close connections.
Mindfulness practices and solution-focused steps are woven into sessions when helpful. She adapts methods to the needs and pace of each person. Clients can expect a collaborative relationship where goals are set together and progress is checked regularly.
Sonia emphasizes small, doable steps and honors the courage it takes to seek change. Her goal is to help people find clearer direction and more ease in everyday life. Her practice is based in New Jersey and sessions are offered in English.
Sonia encourages people who are ready to explore change to consider what they want to be different and to take the next step toward support.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy encourages people to notice difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to actions that match their values. It can help with ongoing anxiety and life transitions by shifting focus toward what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and provides concrete skills to reduce worry and change unhelpful habits. It is often useful for stress and anxiety and for coping with daily challenges. Client-Centered Therapy centers on listening and understanding; the therapist offers empathy and supports the person's own insights and choices, which can be especially helpful when working through relationship or family concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Sonia works collaboratively to identify which methods fit a person’s goals, needs, and preferences. She will talk through options, try different techniques, and adjust the plan based on what is helping.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexible options. Video allows face-to-face conversation for deeper dialogue, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat or messaging works for brief check-ins or written reflection. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy week and to maintain contact between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey, Virginia
- Languages
- English
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