- Years in practice
- 9
- Registration
- BACP
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Family conflicts
- Focus
- Depression
About Sonia
Sonia Dugay is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who offers calm, approachable support for people dealing with parenting concerns and other life stresses. She creates a listening space where clients can talk without judgement and begin to find clearer next steps. Sonia uses straightforward language and gentle curiosity to help people feel heard and less alone.
She has nine years of experience and has worked in a support centre for survivors of rape and sexual abuse, and more recently in independent practice.
Background and approach
That background means she is familiar with anxiety, anger, low self-esteem, intimacy difficulties and eating and food-related issues. She has also worked with people facing career changes, loneliness and the varied stresses that came up during lockdown. Sonia draws on client-centred ways of working that start from the belief that clients have the answers inside them.
She listens for what matters most and helps people notice their own strengths and choices. She also uses psychodynamic ideas to look at how earlier life experiences can shape current feelings and relationships. Practical, short-term approaches are part of her toolbox too, including solution-focused techniques to set small, manageable goals.
For people who have experienced trauma, she brings trauma-informed attention and care to safety and pacing while discussing past harms. Outside work Sonia values exercise as a mood boost, often choosing a brisk walk or a dance class. She is open to people of different faiths and cultures and aims to be warm, respectful and non-judgemental in sessions.
What Sonia works with
Everything Sonia lists, in their own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Sonia helps people with.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Sonia lists
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
How Sonia’s approaches translate to online work
Client-centred therapy places the person and their experience at the heart of sessions. In practice this means the counsellor listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps clients notice their own strengths and choices. This approach can help with parenting concerns, stress and low self-esteem.Psychodynamic work explores how earlier life events shape current feelings and patterns. Online sessions can use gentle questioning and reflection to uncover recurring themes from childhood or past relationships that still cause difficulty today. This can be useful for understanding attachment, abandonment or family of origin issues.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sonia will talk with clients about their needs, goals and preferences and together decide whether a client-centred way, psychodynamic reflection or short solution-focused steps make the most sense. That decision is revisited as work progresses to keep things relevant.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for many people. Video calls provide a near face-to-face experience, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can feel simpler, while live chat and text messaging suit brief check-ins or ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, childcare or other commitments, and to continue talking when in-person meetings are difficult.
Questions people ask about Sonia
What concerns does Sonia help with?
Sonia supports people with relationship strain, parenting worries, anxiety, depression and stress. She also works with issues such as trauma and abuse, intimacy difficulties, eating and body image concerns, and career or life changes.
How would she describe her therapeutic style?
She uses a client-centred approach that focuses on listening and drawing out a person’s own resources. She also uses psychodynamic thinking to explore how past experiences affect present life and solution-focused techniques for practical goal-setting.
What is her background and experience?
Sonia has nine years of experience, including work at a support centre for survivors of rape and sexual abuse and recent independent practice work supporting a broad range of concerns.
What credentials does she hold and where is she based?
She is registered with the BACP, which is listed as her credential, and she practises in the United Kingdom.
Can sessions be held in languages other than English?
Sessions are offered in English.
Which session formats are available?
Sessions can be delivered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How does billing and cost work?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided via a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
What should I do to start working with her?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling sessions according to the therapist’s availability.
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