About Sophie
Sophie Ibekwem is a counsellor who supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and relationship problems. She also helps with depression, coping with life changes, grief, trauma and abuse, addictions and difficulties around intimacy and body image.
Sophie works in English and supports people across a range of everyday struggles, including parenting strain, sleep and eating issues, career concerns and compassion fatigue. Sophie uses a person-centred style that puts the client’s perspective first.
Background and approach
That means she listens without judging and helps people set their own goals. Conversations are guided by what each person wants to change, whether that is building boundaries, confidence or motivation. With six years’ experience she has worked with many people on issues such as abandonment, attachment and communication problems, codependency and blended family concerns.
Sophie is registered with NCPS and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She adapts sessions to each person’s needs and plans work together with clients. Sophie is also studying Transactional Analysis and psychoanalytical ideas to better understand relationship patterns, and brings those perspectives into therapeutic conversations as appropriate.
Practical arrangements include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Sophie works with people in the United Kingdom and sessions are held in English.
Approaches that shape online counselling and how they help
Person-centred counselling focuses on the client’s experience and goals. The counsellor listens closely, reflects what is said and helps people find their own path forward. This approach is useful for building self-esteem, deciding on boundaries and working through life changes.Transactional Analysis and psychoanalytical ideas look at patterns in relationships and early life influences. These perspectives can help someone understand repeated behaviours, attachment challenges and where strong emotional reactions come from. They are useful when people want to unpack long-standing relationship patterns or issues like abandonment and dependency.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sophie will discuss different ideas and decide together which ones fit your needs, goals and preferences. The plan can be adjusted as you go, so the focus stays practical and relevant to what matters to you.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls let you meet face to face when you prefer that connection. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Chat or messaging works for brief check-ins, written reflection and people who prefer not to use audio. These options help therapy fit around work, family and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- 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
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- 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)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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