About Sunshine
Sunshine Goodfellow is a BACP-registered counsellor with 13 years of experience. She welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship problems, grief or life changes. She also supports those facing trauma, addiction, eating concerns, sleep problems and difficulties with intimacy or self-esteem.
Sunshine takes a calm, grounded approach that helps people reconnect with their bodies and emotions. She uses somatic ideas alongside attachment work and client-centred listening to help clients feel safer with their experience.
Background and approach
Sessions are practical and paced to each person’s needs so they can make steady changes. Her background includes study at Anglia Ruskin University and postgraduate work in art and play therapy at the University of Cambridge. Sunshine has also contributed to her community as a school governor and youth leader, which informs her understanding of everyday pressures on families and carers.
In therapy she focuses on simple practices you can use between sessions. These might include gentle body-based exercises, noticing patterns in relationships, and straightforward ways to manage anxiety or mood. Her style is collaborative - she helps people identify clear goals and small steps toward them.
Sunshine aims to create an inclusive space where people from varied backgrounds feel respected. She accepts international clients and offers sessions in English to suit different needs and schedules.
How somatic and relational approaches work online
Somatic-informed work focuses on the body's signals and how they link to thoughts and feelings. In practice this can mean learning simple breathing and grounding exercises, noticing tension patterns, and using movement or posture to reduce anxiety or overwhelm. This approach can help with trauma, stress and long-term patterns of reactivity.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connections. It helps people recognise interaction habits, repair ruptures and build safer ways of relating. Client-Centred Therapy places the person's experience at the heart of sessions, with the counsellor listening without judgement and following the client's pace and priorities.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk through your concerns, goals and what feels comfortable, then try methods that fit. Adjustments are expected; together you can shape a plan that suits your needs and preferences.
Online sessions via video, phone, live chat or text offer flexibility for busy lives. They make it possible to work from home, during breaks or while travelling without losing continuity. These formats also allow for a mix of longer video meetings and shorter check-ins by chat or message to keep progress moving.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- 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
- 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
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English