Sophie Wilfin

Sophie Wilfin is a counsellor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, anger and relationship difficulties. She supports people coping with grief, family conflict, parenting strain, issues around intimacy and LGBT concerns. Sophie combines practical listening with steady encouragement to help people take small steps forward.

She describes clients as the experts in their own lives and focuses on helping them use their strengths. Sessions aim to be warm and non-judgemental so people can speak openly about what is troubling them. Sophie uses everyday language and simple tools rather than jargon.

Her approach draws on methods such as cognitive behavioural work and acceptance and commitment ideas to help people notice what matters and make gradual changes. Attachment-based and emotionally focused work shape how she explores relational patterns and feelings between people. The emphasis is on exploring emotions, building clearer communication and trying out different ways of coping.

Sophie has four years of professional experience and holds BACP registration, which is a UK counselling membership. She has also worked at Barnet Bereavement, where she supported people through loss and grief. That role informs her practical experience with bereavement and related anxieties.

In sessions Sophie listens actively, reflects back what she hears and helps set small, realistic goals. She aims to empower people to manage everyday pressures, improve self-esteem and find clearer ways to move forward.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without letting them dictate actions. It focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small value-based steps, which can help with anger, anxiety and life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and offers practical techniques to test unhelpful thinking and try new coping strategies. This approach is useful for stress, anxiety and low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy explores patterns from close relationships and how they affect current connections; it can be helpful for relationship and intimacy issues.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences with each person and agree a way forward together. That collaborative process includes trying methods and adjusting them to suit what is most helpful in practice.

The original profile did not specify session formats. Before booking, confirm which online options are offered for this therapist. Online work can make sessions easier to fit into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow someone to check in from quieter surroundings. It can also make shorter check-ins or focused skills practice simpler to schedule, helping therapeutic work fit around everyday life.