Psychotherapy

Life has it’s ups and downs, I am here to be with you through this when you need support - we can do this together.

I am often asked who I work with - it is you, a regular human who has experienced life. We can hit a difficult part of life and it knocks us, this can lead to anxiety, depression, relationship or work difficulties and impact on our functioning and confidence.

My job is to offer you high quality treatments and psychotherapy. To work with you to develop the understanding, insights, techniques and strategies you need to work through this.

With 20 years experience, BABCP accredited, experienced in both the NHS and Private Sectors. I am able to help you to understand the difficulties you have been experiencing and work through these using evidence based, practical methods and strategies.

CBT helps you to learn about the interaction between your thoughts, emotions, behaviours and bodily sensations. We work together, it is a collaborative therapy.

Taking care of our mental health often starts when we reach the point of difficulty or crisis. My aim is to support you, to offer early intervention and prevention if possible and effective treatment at a point of crisis.

Therapy allows deep healing work and treating mental ill health, disorders with exploration, discovery and recovery.

Training

I provide premium, evidence-based training solutions that enhance mental health and wellbeing standards across organisations, the public sector and professional teams.

We can support a strategic shift towards compassionate, psychologically informed workplace cultures, where mental health is recognised as fundamental to both people and performance.

Our portfolio includes Mental Health Awareness, Mental Health First Aid, stress and burnout management, and trauma-informed practice.

Delivered to the highest professional standards, our programmes are CPD-aligned, ensuring quality, credibility, and meaningful professional development. Each course is designed to equip leaders and employees with the insight, confidence, and practical skills required to recognise, respond to, and proactively manage mental health within the workplace.

We partner with organisations to strengthen resilience and embed a culture of care and accountability that supports sustainable performance and long-term wellbeing.

The Relationship & Divorce Mindset

There are so many things clients share with me when facing relationships challenges - Should I stay or should I go? I love them but I am not in love with them; Is divorce the right thing? We just seem to be living different lives…

From my work with clients, I realise that this can be a moment of self-awareness, a realisation that drift has occurred. Not because love disappeared, but because life happened, life was busy, communication broke down under the weight of life, work and change. This can be a moment of connection, if we just allow space and the opportunity.

Mindset work through Therapeutic Coaching can support you to create the life you want. By asking strategic questions and using powerful techniques, so deep and long lasting change takes place. This is about creating change by moving from insight to action.

Change is not just about external action. It can be about the change of perspectives, beliefs rules for living and behaviours, a shift in mindset (and hardwire this!) for personal development, growth and transformation.

Divorce is a life-changing decision and yes, sometimes it is the right one.

Relationships were never meant to run on autopilot. A marriage is more than a wedding, a house, or raising children together. It is two people choosing each other, every single day.
Rupture doesn't have to mean failure. With the right support, it can become repair.
Repair can lead to healing, personal growth, and when both partners choose it renewed togetherness and partnership.

Relationship Coaching can explore this with you.

When divorce is chosen, divorce is not just an ending, it is a transition point. With the right support, it can be the beginning of a more grounded, confident and fulfilling life. This is trauma informed, therapeutic coaching deeply rooted in psychological preparation and practical support readiness.

Divorce isn’t just legal, it’s emotional, psychological, and relational.

This is about being able to make decisions, without being clouded by emotion, with the insights, tools and techniques needed to achieve this.

Whether you are considering separation or divorce and just not sure - but simply not sure if this is the right thing, navigating the process, or rebuilding afterwards, my trauma informed work with you and coaching combines therapeutic insight with practical strategies.

As a trained Psychotherapist, Coach and Family Mediator, I can work with individuals offering Coaching, emotional and practical support.

CBT is a Gold Standard Treatment. Listed as a treatment of choice in Government NICE Guidelines.
— CBT in Partnership

Your choice of location

Online offers you the option to meet from anywhere in the UK.

In person, you are able to meet in our welcoming, private therapy room in Tunbridge Wells town centre.

NB. At present, we are unable to accept 1:1 under 18 referrals.

After this therapy programme with Sonya, I am for the first time in my life, dealing with complex emotions in a healthy way.
Sonya has helped me to feel safe and live a balanced and happy life.
I cannot thank Sonya enough for the tools she has provided me with.
It has been a truly life changing experience.
— Client quote