About Sonya
Sonya Kirven is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with nine years of counseling experience. She works with adults and young adults on issues that include anxiety, depression, stress, self-esteem, and career concerns. She also supports people dealing with parenting strain, relationship problems, compassion fatigue, and life changes.
Sonya combines straightforward, person-focused care with practical tools. She leans on cognitive behavioral ideas while drawing from acceptance-based and motivational methods. Sessions focus on real steps clients can try between meetings.
Background and approach
The goal is clearer thinking, better coping, and concrete progress toward goals. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental. She emphasizes collaboration and helps people notice what matters most to them.
Sonya encourages trying options and adjusting when something does not fit. She frames setbacks as information rather than failure. Clients can expect a strengths-based approach that highlights personal resources.
Sonya pays attention to attachment and abandonment concerns when they affect relationships and self-worth. She also helps people explore life purpose and self-love as part of building resilience. Sonya has worked in Connecticut settings that include services for young adults and adults.
Her experience includes supporting people with practical problems such as finances and career decisions alongside emotional concerns. She invites people to lead the pace while offering guidance and tools to reach their goals.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify their values and take small steps toward a meaningful life even when difficult thoughts or feelings show up. It’s useful for anxiety, low motivation, and coping with major life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression. It supports people who want structured tools and practice between sessions. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening, empathy, and working at the client’s pace to build self-trust and insight; it fits people who need a supportive space to sort out decisions and feelings.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Sonya will talk with clients about their goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust plans when something isn’t helping. That process is collaborative and pragmatic, with an emphasis on what changes feel workable in everyday life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people meet face to face from different locations. Phone sessions work well when lower bandwidth or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can fit busy days or shorter, in-the-moment support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or family routines while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English