About Sophia
Sophia Monerville is a counsellor with nine years of experience supporting people through difficult life moments. She works from a human-centred stance and draws on a mix of therapeutic ideas to meet each person’s needs. Sophia meets people where they are and helps them take small, clear steps forward.
She uses a blend of Client-Centred, cognitive and psychodynamic ideas to help people understand how past patterns shape present choices. Conversations focus on relationships, self-image, and the patterns that cause repeated stress or conflict.
How Sophia works
Sophia aims to make sense of unhelpful cycles so people can choose different responses. Sessions are practical and grounded. Sophia helps people notice physical reactions, thoughts, and emotions so they can try new ways of coping.
She offers straightforward tools for managing anxiety, mood changes, sleep problems, and addictive behaviour, alongside space to talk about grief, trauma, or identity concerns. People often come with worries about work, parenting pressures, or problems with intimacy and communication.
Sophia also supports those dealing with chronic illness, caregiver stress, body image, and sexual or relationship concerns such as kink and alternative sexual culture. She brings patience and a non-judgemental stance to each conversation. Therapy is collaborative.
Sophia helps people set goals, test different approaches, and notice what changes. She explains ideas clearly and adapts sessions to what is helpful in the moment. The process is steady, practical, and focused on real-life outcomes.
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What Sophia works with
The areas below are the ones Sophia selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- 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
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| 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
Approaches you can try online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on creating an accepting, non-judgemental conversation where the person’s own goals guide the work. This approach helps people clarify values, build self-acceptance, and become more confident in making choices.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours link together. It offers practical exercises and small experiments to reduce anxiety, manage mood, improve sleep, and change unhelpful habits.
Psychodynamic ideas pay attention to patterns that come from past relationships and repeat in current life. Talking about these patterns can help people understand why they react in certain ways and open up different options for relating to themselves and others.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sophia will collaborate with each person to decide which methods to try based on needs, goals and preferences. That can mean mixing approaches, testing techniques, and adjusting as progress is observed.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging gives flexibility. Video helps preserve face-to-face conversation, phone calls use less data, and messaging is useful for brief check-ins or when a quieter format is needed. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life, or mobility limits while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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A practical next step
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