About Sophia
Sophia Hammoudeh is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who supports people dealing with phobias as well as anxiety, stress and trauma-related issues. She works with a wide range of concerns including addiction, grief, relationship and intimacy-related problems, sleeping and eating difficulties, low self-esteem and career stress.
Sophia speaks English and Arabic and brings five years of professional experience to her work. Sophia uses a flexible, person-focused style in sessions.
Background and approach
She listens first and adapts her approach to each person's needs. Sessions aim to help people notice what matters to them, develop helpful daily strategies and rebuild a sense of control in distressing situations. Her methods include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-based work and client-centred counselling, with emotionally focused ideas and hypnotherapy also available where helpful.
These approaches are used to reduce avoidance, clarify values and improve emotional connection with oneself and others. People often come to Sophia for help with parenting strain, compassion fatigue, ADHD-related difficulties and long-term health or caregiving stress. She also supports those coping with bereavement, abandonment issues, body image and communication problems.
Sophia aims to create a calm, adaptable space where practical steps and reflective conversations sit side by side. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and arrange sessions that suit their schedule.
How Sophia's approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while learning to sit with difficult feelings. It is useful for anxiety, phobias and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationship patterns affect current connections and safety; it can help with intimacy issues, abandonment concerns and communication problems. Client-Centred Therapy gives people time to tell their story without judgement, with the counsellor offering empathy and reflection to strengthen self-understanding and confidence.Finding the right approach usually happens together. The counsellor will talk through options, try techniques and check what helps most. This is a collaborative process where goals and preferences shape the plan rather than a one-size-fits-all method.
Online sessions are available by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make fitting therapy into daily life easier. Video sessions work well when seeing facial cues matters. Phone calls can fit a shorter check-in or lower bandwidth. Live chat and messaging suit ongoing support or people who prefer typed conversations. These formats aim to give flexibility and consistent access to a therapist from wherever someone is located.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- 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
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Arabic
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