Sonia Roberts, BACP

Counsellor and BACP member Sonia Roberts has three years of professional counselling experience in the UK. She works with stress, anxiety, family and parenting concerns, low self esteem and depression. Sonia uses simple, direct language in sessions and focuses on what feels manageable for each person.

Sonia draws on three main approaches: client-centred work that listens to a person's experience, cognitive behavioural ideas that look at unhelpful thoughts and patterns, and psychodynamic thinking about past relationships and how they shape the present. She combines these to suit practical issues such as parenting struggles, family conflict and low mood.

Before training as a counsellor Sonia worked in social care for 25 years. That background informs her practical approach to everyday problems and how systems and family roles affect stress. She also has personal experience of hardship, which she says deepened her understanding of how difficulties can affect daily life.

In a session Sonia aims to help people talk through what is worrying them, notice patterns that make things harder, and try small changes that might ease pressure. She avoids jargon and keeps the focus on clear, doable steps alongside listening to the story behind the problem.

People who come to Sonia often want help with communication problems, isolation or loneliness, life purpose questions, and the strain of caregiving or chronic illness. Her approach is steady and practical, with attention to feelings and to the relationships that matter most.

Therapeutic approaches and online counselling