About Sonya
Sonya Fields is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who helps people who feel stuck and want meaningful change. She focuses on practical steps that use a person’s own strengths. Her style blends coaching and counseling to move people from surviving to thriving.
She starts by listening to what matters most and identifying realistic goals. Sessions look at what is working and what is not, then build on existing strengths and resources.
Background and approach
Clients learn ways to trust their own judgment and take steady action toward their goals. Sonya draws on techniques from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral ideas, emotionally-focused methods, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. She often combines these with health and wellness coaching to address habits, sleep, and self-care.
The approach is simple and concrete - try something small, notice results, and adapt. With 25 years of experience, Sonya has supported people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, ADHD, anger, career questions, and more. She also works on blended family issues, body image, caregiver stress, and first responder challenges.
Practical problem solving and clear steps are central to her work. Sessions are available by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging, with a mix of synchronous meetings and message-based support. Sonya practices from South Carolina and speaks English.
She accepts international clients and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Therapeutic approaches for online change and growth
Sonya often uses client-centered therapy, which means sessions begin with listening and following the client’s lead. This approach helps people feel heard and builds a plan around their values and priorities. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is another common tool she uses to break down unhelpful thoughts and habits into small, testable steps; CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep, and behavior change.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sonya partners with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That may mean starting with listening-focused sessions and then adding CBT techniques, mindfulness practices, or motivational interviewing to keep momentum going.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports brief check-ins or written reflection, and text messaging lets people stay connected between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to try different formats as needs change.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English