About Sonya
Sonya Belletti is a licensed clinical social worker with 26 years of experience in Florida. She helps people who are facing anxiety, depression, relationship strain, parenting stress, and life transitions. Her background includes work in independent practice, community programs, and school settings, giving her a broad view of everyday struggles.
She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Syracuse University with a minor in Child and Family Studies. She completed a Master of Social Work at San Jose State University with a clinical focus on child and family issues.
Background and approach
Those academic roots inform a practical, down-to-earth approach to care. In sessions she draws on client-centered methods and solution-focused work to keep conversations focused and useful. She also uses attachment-based ideas, cognitive behavioral techniques, the Gottman Method for relationship concerns, and mindfulness practices when they fit a person's needs.
The goal is to give clear tools, not jargon. Sonya has supported people through grief, trauma and abuse, fertility and fatherhood issues, caregiver stress, and compassion fatigue. She pays attention to family of origin and blended family challenges and helps people improve communication, set boundaries, and manage anger or control issues.
Her style is respectful and strengths-based. She encourages people to name what matters to them and to try practical steps between meetings. Sessions are tailored to each person’s pace and priorities, with an emphasis on skills that can be used in daily life.
How her approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy centers on relationships and how early connections shape current patterns. Online sessions using this lens help people identify attachment needs and try new ways of asking for support in daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and gives specific skills to reduce anxiety and change unhelpful patterns. Mindfulness Therapy teaches short practices to calm the body and notice stressful thoughts without reacting to them, which can be useful for anxiety and stress.Choosing the right approach is part of the work and is decided together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped in the past. They will adjust methods as progress is made so the plan fits the person's life and needs.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people work face-to-face when that is helpful. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging allow brief check-ins, homework support, or continued reflection between visits. These options make it easier to fit therapy around school, work, and caregiving commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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