Sophia Monerville, BACP
Somatic-aware counsellor using practical, person-focused methods
About Sophia
Sophia Monerville is a counsellor with nine years of professional experience. She holds BACP registration, and she blends several approaches to meet each person's needs. Sophia aims to make therapy straightforward and practical for people feeling overwhelmed or stuck.
Sophia shapes sessions around a person's story and present difficulties. She pays attention to the body as well as thoughts and feelings, and often uses somatic ideas alongside talk-based work. This helps people notice how stress, anxiety or grief show up physically as well as mentally.
Background and approach
Sessions are built to be collaborative and down to earth. Sophia uses client-centred listening to understand what matters most to the individual. She then introduces tools from cognitive behavioural work and psychodynamic thinking when they suit the goals of therapy.
Common concerns she supports include anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, addiction, and stress-related problems like sleeping and eating difficulties. She also works with people facing career changes, caregiving strain, chronic illness, and questions around identity and attachment. Sophia typically helps people uncover patterns that hold them back and try small, practical changes.
She encourages clearer communication, greater self-awareness, and better coping skills. Sessions aim to be a steady space for exploring challenges and building workable steps forward.
How Sophia’s approaches translate to online therapy
Somatic Therapy in Sophia's work often brings attention to bodily sensations and breath. Online sessions can guide people to notice tension or grounding in their bodies and learn simple practices to reduce stress and increase presence.Client-Centred Therapy focuses on attentive, non-judgemental listening and helping a person find their own answers. In online meetings this approach creates space for honest conversation and for the therapist to reflect what the client is discovering.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) provides clear, practical techniques for managing thoughts, behaviours and routines. When working remotely, Sophia can use CBT tools to set small experiments, track patterns, and build new habits between sessions.
Choosing the right approach is part of the therapy process. Sophia works together with each person to decide which methods feel most helpful based on their goals, preferences and what turns up in early sessions. That collaborative process means the plan can change as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and health needs while maintaining continuity of care. Many people find that remote formats reduce logistical barriers and let them engage with therapy from a familiar setting.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- 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 disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English