Sophia Monerville , BACP

Sophia Monerville draws on nine years of clinical work to shape a practical, person-focused way of working. She holds BACP registration, and she uses a mix of approaches to help people understand what gets in the way of feeling stable and connected. Sessions aim to be straightforward and grounded so people can make steady changes over time.

She commonly helps with stress, anxiety, depression and trauma and abuse, and also supports people with addiction concerns and grief. Sophia is experienced supporting sexual health and intimacy-related issues, LGBT concerns, and body image difficulties. She also works with sleep and eating difficulties, anger, self-esteem, and career-related worries.

Her approach combines Client-Centred ideas with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and psychodynamic thinking. That means she listens first, notices patterns that repeat in relationships, and helps people try small practical steps to shift thoughts and behaviours. Somatic ideas are used when bodily experience matters, for example with trauma or chronic illness.

Sophia offers online work from the United Kingdom in English. Sessions are available by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. International clients are not currently accepted.

Practicalities are kept simple. Sessions run on a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time, and fees vary with location and therapist availability. To start, users complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session according to therapist availability.

How Sophia's approaches translate to online therapy

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and supporting people to find their own answers. In online sessions this means the counsellor aims to create a calm space where the person feels heard and respected, which helps with issues like low self-esteem and relationship concerns.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and uses short practical exercises to shift unhelpful patterns. It is often helpful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems and stress because it provides tools that can be practised between sessions.

Sophia treats choosing an approach as a collaborative process. She will check in about goals, preferences and what feels most useful, then adapt methods as the work progresses. That way therapy can change as needs change rather than being fixed from the start.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video allows fuller conversation and non-verbal cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins and text messaging helps people keep in touch between sessions. These options offer flexibility so therapy can fit around work, family and other commitments.