About Sophie
Sophie Howe is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who aims to help people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety or low mood. She supports people dealing with focus and concentration difficulties, trauma and abuse, and issues around self-esteem and motivation. Sophie keeps language plain and sessions straightforward to make the first step easier for worried clients.
She draws on four years of professional experience and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
Background and approach
In sessions she encourages open conversation and gentle challenge so people can understand patterns that keep them stuck. Sophie helps clients break problems into smaller steps and practises new ways of coping between meetings. Her work covers a wide range of life concerns, including relationship strain, grief, addictive behaviours, sleep and eating difficulties, parenting challenges and career stress.
She also supports people exploring identity and LGBT issues, and those managing long-term health, chronic pain or caregiving burdens. Sophie pays attention to attachment and relationship patterns when these affect day-to-day life. Therapy tends to combine practical strategies and reflective conversation.
Techniques from cognitive behavioural approaches are used alongside acceptance-based ideas and emotionally-focused work. Sophie aims to tailor what happens in the room to each person’s goals and pace. People seeking online support can choose from video, phone, live chat or messaging.
Sophie explains what to expect and helps plan next steps so therapy fits around work, family and other commitments.
Therapeutic approaches suited to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress and life transitions because it focuses on small steps towards what matters. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions interact and introduces practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns, which can be practised between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sophie will talk with each person about goals and preferences and suggest which methods to try. That discussion is collaborative and can be adjusted as therapy progresses, so techniques match the person rather than the other way around.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people juggling work, family or health needs. Video calls let visual cues guide the conversation, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a short break, and live chat or messaging suit quick check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent and to practise techniques between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- 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 conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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