About Sonja
Sonja Wittig is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who supports people feeling overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. She also works with individuals facing depression, trauma and abuse, and LGBT matters. Sonja speaks English and German and brings four years of professional experience to her practice.
Sonja creates a calm space where clients can speak openly about what feels difficult. She aims to listen with attention and without judgement.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on understanding how daily patterns, relationships, and past experiences affect current feelings. Her approach combines client-centred listening with mindfulness and body-based techniques. That means the work can involve talking, gentle awareness exercises, and noticing how emotions appear in the body.
This mix is intended to help people feel more grounded and able to manage strong reactions. When trauma is part of the story, Sonja uses trauma-focused methods alongside somatic tools to address how past events continue to affect the body and mind. The goal is to help clients feel safer in their own experience and regain a sense of control.
Practical matters such as session format and planning are discussed together. Sonja uses a collaborative process to choose what will be most helpful. She encourages people to take the first step when they feel ready.
How mindfulness and somatic work translate to online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and responding to what each person brings. It helps people feel heard and guides decisions about what to work on together. Mindfulness Therapy involves simple attention exercises to notice thoughts and feelings with less judgement, which can calm anxious states and improve coping.Somatic Therapy pays attention to sensations in the body and how emotion shows up physically. In practice this can mean slowing the breath, noticing tension, or grounding exercises that help reduce reactivity. These approaches are often helpful for stress, anxiety, trauma-related symptoms and the emotional effects of illness.
Finding the right approach happens in collaboration. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods and adjust based on what feels useful. Clients help shape the plan, with options tested gently and changed if needed.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls work well for face-to-face conversation and guided mindfulness or somatic exercises. Phone sessions suit shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief updates, reflections between sessions, or a way to work without being on camera. This mix makes it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to continue work across different circumstances.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, German
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