About Sophie
Sophie Wilfin helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief and major life changes. She supports those managing parenting challenges, intimacy worries, eating and body image concerns, anger, self-esteem and career questions. Sophie also works with trauma and abuse, LGBT issues, and a wide range of attachment and communication difficulties.
Sophie practises in the United Kingdom and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She describes therapy as a partnership where the client is the expert in their own story.
How Sophie works
Her manner is warm and accepting, and she aims to create a calm space for people to talk about painful or confusing experiences. In sessions Sophie uses practical approaches such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy alongside attachment-based and client-centred work.
She helps people notice unhelpful patterns, try small experiments and build clearer ways of relating to themselves and others. Sophie has four years of professional experience and has worked at Barnet Bereavement providing grief counselling. That role informed her understanding of loss and how it affects daily life and relationships.
She draws on that background when supporting people through bereavement and related difficulties. People who want a calm, steady listener will find her style easy to engage with. She focuses on helping clients identify strengths, set manageable steps and practise skills between sessions.
Sophie encourages realistic, gradual change rather than quick fixes.
Sophie lists 9 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
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- 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
Practical therapy approaches for online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting swept away by them. It encourages identifying what matters most and taking small actions that match those values, which can help with anxiety, stress and life changes.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns of connection and trust. Work in this area helps people understand habitual responses in relationships and practise safer ways of relating to others and themselves.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about their needs, goals and preferences and together they will try methods that feel most useful. That collaborative process means plans can change as understanding deepens and new priorities emerge.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different lifestyles. Video calls are useful for fuller conversations and visual connection. Phone sessions suit people who prefer not to be on camera or who have lower bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter, flexible check-ins throughout the week or written reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments while working with registered or accredited professionals.
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