About Sonya
Dr. Sonya Boone is a licensed clinical social worker with 16 years of experience in Hawaii. She combines a background in behavioral health and social work to support people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and other life challenges.
Her style is direct and compassionate, aimed at helping people find practical ways forward. She holds a Doctorate in Behavioral Health and multiple graduate degrees that inform her clinical perspective. That training shaped how she listens and the tools she offers in sessions.
Background and approach
Dr. Boone draws on evidence-based methods to help people manage symptoms and handle difficult moments. In the therapy room she focuses on the person’s story and where they want to go next.
She uses strategies to improve communication, reduce overwhelming feelings, and build everyday coping skills. Sessions often include exercises people can use between meetings. She pays attention to cultural context and life transitions when planning care.
People seeking help with parenting stress, work problems, grief, relationship tension, or coping after trauma will find a practical approach. Dr. Boone aims to help clients clarify goals and practice small changes that add up over time.
Her practice also addresses areas like ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, chronic illness, and compassion fatigue. She emphasizes collaboration, respect, and steady progress as people work toward greater balance and resilience.
Approaches that translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on values and taking small, committed steps toward a meaningful life, which can help with anxiety and stress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) identifies unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and replaces them with practical strategies. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes, and it works well in structured online sessions. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity and increase present-moment awareness, useful for managing stress and emotional overwhelm.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try different strategies, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. Clients and the therapist work together to pick methods that fit personality, symptoms, and daily life demands.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins and skill coaching possible between sessions. These options provide flexibility to schedule care around work, family, or travel and let people maintain continuity of support regardless of location.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, Texas, Hawaii, New Jersey, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon
- Languages
- English
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