About Sonia
Dr. Sonia Smith is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of experience. She practices in New York and uses practical, straightforward approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship or intimacy concerns.
She frames sessions around the person in front of her. Conversations focus on concrete steps that fit daily life. Clients can expect a mix of talking, problem solving, and goal-focused work tailored to their situation.
How Sonia works
Dr. Smith draws on client-centered work to build a trusting, respectful relationship. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Motivational Interviewing and solution-focused methods guide short-term goals and next steps. Her background includes long-term clinical work across trauma, domestic violence, addictions, and family issues. That experience informs how she supports people facing loss, separation, parenting strain, identity questions, or major life transitions.
Sessions aim to be practical and steady. Dr. Smith helps people identify small changes that add up, whether that means coping strategies for anxiety, clearer communication in relationships, or planning through grief.
She works with people on reclaiming balance and moving toward clearer purpose.
Sonia lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Sonia works with
The areas below are the ones Sonia selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person and their goals. In practice this means the therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps clients decide next steps. This approach supports a range of issues from grief to relationship challenges.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. It often uses short exercises and homework to build different habits, which fits well with video or phone sessions. Motivational Interviewing complements CBT by helping people clarify their own reasons for change and strengthening motivation one step at a time.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Dr. Smith will collaborate to choose methods that match a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. She treats therapy as a joint process and adjusts techniques as progress is made.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls enable face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports brief notes or ongoing reflection. These options offer flexibility so people can keep steady progress without major schedule disruption.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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