About Sonia
Sonia "Nina" Sweeney offers calm, practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, grief and life changes. She introduces herself warmly and works to make it easier to talk about hard things. Nina aims to help clients feel understood and find clearer paths forward in day-to-day life.
Nina uses simple, client-centred methods that focus on the person's own goals. She listens first, then helps people notice patterns and try small changes that make a difference.
How Sonia works
This makes sessions feel less like instruction and more like a conversation about what matters to the client. She has nine years of professional experience and holds BACP and NCPS credentials. BACP stands for the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and NCPS is the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society.
Those affiliations reflect her commitment to continuing practice standards. Nina has worked with many common concerns including trauma and abuse, anger, low self-esteem, sleep problems and parenting strain. She also gives extra focus to attachment and abandonment issues, body image, codependency and separation and divorce topics.
When trauma is part of the story, Nina draws on trauma-focused work to help people process painful events and reduce their hold on daily life. She combines that with client-centred listening to keep therapy grounded in each person’s priorities. Sessions are offered in English and can be done online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging.
To start, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to the therapist’s availability.
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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
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | BACP, NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How client-centred and trauma-focused work translates online
Client-Centred Therapy places the person’s goals and experience at the heart of each session. The counsellor listens without judgement, reflects what she hears and helps clients choose small changes they want to try. This approach is useful for stress, low self-esteem, relationship difficulties and general life challenges.Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on the impacts of painful events and helps people reduce how much those memories interfere with daily life. Work may include careful reflection on past experiences, pacing the conversation, and developing coping strategies for strong emotions. This approach is especially relevant for trauma, abuse and complex stress reactions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The counsellor will talk with the client about needs, goals and preferences, and together they will decide which methods to use and when to adjust them. Clients are involved in shaping the plan rather than having a preset path imposed.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging, which offers flexibility for different days and routines. Video is helpful for visual connection, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and messaging lets people send thoughts between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, childcare and travel commitments, and to maintain contact when meetings in person are difficult.
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