About Sidonia
Sidonia Stiles works with people who are dealing with grief, anxiety, stress and relationship issues. She is a counsellor with a long history of helping clients make sense of difficult feelings and life changes. Sidonia uses a down-to-earth style and aims to make sessions feel straightforward and practical.
She trained with a Higher National Diploma in Person Centred counselling and holds a Level 5 Diploma in Relationship therapy from CPCAB.
How Sidonia works
Sidonia is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She also draws on many years of earlier work supporting young people in residential group settings. In sessions she focuses on what a person’s upbringing and family patterns mean for their current relationships.
Sidonia often uses genograms - visual maps of family relationships - to help people see repeated patterns and find different ways of relating. She also works with grief using ideas from Gestalt theory to honour individual experience of loss. Her practice covers a wide range of concerns beyond relationships and bereavement, including depression, intimacy-related problems, addictions, sleep difficulties and work stress.
Sidonia also supports people with attachment questions, adoption or foster care background, and the effects of chronic illness or caregiving roles. Sessions are offered in English and Portuguese, and she now provides online appointments as well as evening and weekend slots. Sidonia aims to help people find small, practical steps forward and to feel clearer about their choices.
Sidonia lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
What Sidonia works with
The areas below are the ones Sidonia selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 27 |
| Languages | English, Portuguese |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Sameness in Approach Meets Online Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without letting them control behaviour. It focuses on what matters most to the person and on small actions that move them toward those values. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions interact and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns and reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships shape current ways of connecting and can help with intimacy, trust and communication issues.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sidonia will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and together they decide which methods to try. That collaborative process means the plan can be adjusted as progress is made or as needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that helps. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a lunch break more easily. Live chat or messaging suits short check-ins or people who prefer writing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments while keeping the focus on practical steps and steady progress.
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