About Sonia
Sonia Wiesner is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Wisconsin. She centers her work on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and relationship struggles. Sonia offers straightforward, practical guidance for parents and adults facing major life changes.
She uses a client-centered stance that keeps the person's goals and values first. Sessions focus on building better communication, reducing overwhelm, and strengthening everyday coping skills. Sonia draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy tools to help people change unhelpful thoughts and manage intense emotions.
Background and approach
Mindfulness practices are woven into sessions to improve awareness and lessen reactivity. Motivational Interviewing techniques support people who want to make concrete changes but feel stuck. Together these approaches create short-term strategies and longer-term habits that support daily life.
Sonia has 12 years of clinical experience working with issues such as parenting stress, attachment concerns, trauma and abuse, substance-related impulses, and post-traumatic stress. She also helps people navigate divorce, blended family challenges, caregiver strain, and midlife transitions. People meet with Sonia by phone, video call, live chat, or text messaging, depending on what fits their schedule.
Her work aims to help people feel more in control, communicate more clearly, and manage anxiety so they can focus on what matters most.
Therapeutic approaches for online anxiety and stress support
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person first. The therapist listens closely, reflects what matters to the client, and helps set goals that match personal values. This approach is useful for people who want a supportive, nonjudgmental space to sort through feelings and priorities.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. It teaches simple exercises to reframe unhelpful thoughts and to try different behaviors that reduce anxiety and low mood. CBT works well for everyday anxiety, stress, and mood concerns.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers concrete skills for managing strong emotions and improving relationships. It includes techniques for distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and clearer communication. These tools help when intense reactions or impulsivity get in the way of daily life.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals, try different techniques, and adjust the plan as needed. Clients and therapist decide together which tools make the most sense.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video helps recreate face-to-face contact, phone sessions use less bandwidth, chat can be useful for quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options give flexibility so people can keep therapy consistent while juggling work, parenting, and other demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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