About Sonya
Sonya Poole is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Louisiana with 17 years of experience helping people deal with stress, anxiety, anger, and depression. She focuses on practical steps that improve day-to-day life and helps clients build stronger self-esteem. Her approach is steady and straightforward, aimed at making small changes that add up over time.
She works with people facing major life changes and those trying to regain balance after setbacks.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize clear communication and practical tools for coping. Sonya encourages people to name what matters to them and then take manageable actions toward those goals. Sonya uses a mix of evidence-informed methods to match each person’s needs.
She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice thoughts, try new behaviors, and reduce unhelpful patterns. Mindfulness techniques are used to calm the body and focus attention in the moment. Solution-Focused and Client-Centered approaches shape how she plans sessions.
Conversations tend to be collaborative and goal-oriented, with an emphasis on what will help most right now. She encourages clients to try small experiments between sessions and track what changes. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental.
Sonya invites honest conversation about worries and doubts while helping people find workable strategies. She supports clients as they practice new skills and adjust plans when needed.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions that fit your life
Sonya uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people clarify their values and take meaningful action even when difficult thoughts show up. ACT focuses on what matters most and encourages small steps toward those values. She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify thought patterns that feed anxiety or low mood and to test new ways of thinking and behaving. CBT gives concrete tools to reduce panic, worry, and unhelpful habits.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Sonya will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then mix methods that suit those needs. She encourages trying different strategies and adjusting the plan based on what feels helpful and realistic.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow fuller conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit into a short break or be used when bandwidth is low, and live chat or text-based messaging work well for quick check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy going around work, family routines, or other commitments.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English