About Sophie
Sophie Howe helps people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or uncertain about their next steps. She offers calm, straightforward support for stress, anxiety, low mood, self-esteem struggles and difficulties with concentration or motivation. Sophie writes and speaks plainly so worried parents can quickly understand how she works.
She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and client-centred ideas in sessions. That means Sophie helps people spot unhelpful thoughts, try small behavioural changes, and notice what matters most in their life.
How Sophie works
Sessions are practical and paced to each person’s needs. Sophie also uses attachment-based and emotionally-focused ways of working when relationships or closeness are the core issues. Those approaches help people name emotions, understand patterns with others, and practise different ways of relating.
She tailors techniques to fit the concerns brought to therapy. Her background includes four years of professional practice in the United Kingdom and registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Sophie accepts clients who are located internationally and runs sessions in English.
Work with her may include short goal-focused plans, weekly reflections, or coaching-style conversations about life changes, careers, parenting strain, grief and recovering from trauma. Sophie aims to make the process clear, steady and collaborative so people can move toward more manageable day-to-day life.
Sophie lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Sophie works with
The areas below are the ones Sophie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- 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
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take small committed steps toward those values even when thoughts are difficult. It can be useful for anxiety, low mood and motivation problems. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviours to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. It often helps with worry, sleep and concentration issues. Attachment-based work and emotionally-focused ideas look at patterns in relationships and how emotions get expressed; these approaches can help when closeness, trust or communication are causing pain.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Sophie works collaboratively to choose methods that match the person's goals, needs and preferences. She reviews progress and adapts techniques so sessions stay useful and practical rather than theoretical.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging makes it easier to fit support around work and parenting. Video is good for face-to-face conversation, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat or messaging suit brief check-ins and people who prefer writing. These options offer flexibility and keep the focus on steady, accessible progress.
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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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