About Sophie
Sophie Ibekwem supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and depression. She helps with relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, trauma and abuse, addictions and problems around eating and sleeping. Sophie also assists with career strain, parenting pressures, compassion fatigue and ADHD-related difficulties.
Sophie works in a warm, non-judgemental way. She uses a person-centred approach that encourages people to lead the conversation and set their own goals. Conversations are aimed at helping people notice patterns, build confidence and choose practical next steps that feel manageable.
How Sophie works
Over six years Sophie has helped people recover from difficult childhood experiences, navigate domestic abuse and rebuild self-worth. She combines listening with straightforward support to help people set boundaries and practise better self-care. Sophie holds NCPS and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
She is currently studying Transactional Analysis and psychoanalytic theory to better understand relationship patterns. That learning feeds into sessions when it is relevant to a person’s goals. Sophie adapts her approach to fit each person’s needs rather than applying a one-size-fits-all model.
Sessions are offered online by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. People can expect a calm, respectful space to talk through difficult feelings and make clear, practical plans. Sophie helps people take the next steps towards a more focused, balanced life.
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
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | NCPS, BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Sophie draws on person-centred counselling which focuses on listening and helping people set their own goals. This approach is useful for building self-esteem, improving boundaries and working through painful experiences at a steady pace.She is also studying Transactional Analysis and psychoanalytic ideas to understand repeating relationship patterns. Those perspectives help when someone wants to explore how early relationships influence current behaviour and choices.
Finding the best approach is part of the work together. Sophie will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences and then try approaches that fit. The plan may change as therapy progresses and Sophie keeps checking in about what is helpful.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit therapy around work and family life. Video calls allow fuller conversation and visual connection, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier when movement or hands-free time is needed, while chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins or for people who prefer typing. These options give practical flexibility so people can keep therapy going when life is busy.
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