About Sophie
Sophie Wilfin is a BACP counsellor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief and parenting pressures. She offers straightforward support for self‑esteem, motivation, eating and intimacy issues. Sophie writes plainly and listens closely so people feel heard and respected from the first conversation.
She sees clients as the expert in their own story and builds on individual strengths. Sessions aim to make difficult feelings easier to manage and to clarify the next steps.
Background and approach
Sophie encourages practical changes alongside emotional understanding. Her background includes work at Barnet Bereavement where she provided grief counselling. That role fed into broader experience with anxiety, depression, and family difficulties.
Sophie brings four years of professional practice in the United Kingdom and uses that experience to guide conversations with empathy and focus. Sophie draws on a mix of approaches such as cognitive behavioural techniques, acceptance and commitment ideas, and attachment‑based ways of thinking. These are used to help people spot unhelpful thoughts, notice values that matter, and rebuild trusting connections with others.
In sessions she keeps language simple and practical. People can expect a calm, non‑judgemental space to talk through what matters most. Her aim is to support clients as they find clearer ways to cope and move forward.
How Sophie uses therapeutic approaches online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without letting them control behaviour. It supports identifying personal values and taking small actions that match what matters. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and trying practical alternatives to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Attachment‑based work looks at patterns in close relationships and helps rebuild trust and connection with others.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about needs, goals and preferred ways of working, and then tailor methods together. That collaborative process means techniques can change as progress is made and new issues appear.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text messaging to fit different lives. Video calls suit in‑depth conversations and seeing facial cues. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can work when a quieter time is easier. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter check‑ins or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible for people juggling work, family or health needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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