About Sonya
Sonya Fields is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 25 years of experience helping people get unstuck. She offers straightforward support for stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and relationship or parenting concerns. Her style combines practical coaching with talk therapy so people can take small steps that lead to bigger change.
She focuses on identifying strengths clients already have and using those strengths to meet goals. Sessions often include short-term tools and longer-term planning so progress feels achievable.
Background and approach
Sonya mixes conversational guidance with concrete exercises to build skills for everyday life. Her background blends clinical counseling and wellness coaching. That combination helps when people want support for mental health and also want to change habits around sleep, eating, or self-care.
Sonya names curiosity, honesty, and perspective as the qualities she brings to sessions. Sonya uses client-centered approaches alongside cognitive techniques and emotionally focused work. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are also part of her toolbox.
She adapts methods to fit the person and the problem rather than following a single formula. Sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging, with a preference for a mix of live sessions and message support. Sonya is based in South Carolina and communicates in English.
She accepts international clients and works to make therapy fit into busy schedules.
How Sonya’s Methods Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy puts the person’s priorities first. Sessions begin by listening to what matters most and then shaping the work around those goals. This style helps when someone wants a collaborative, respectful space to sort feelings and plan change.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on practical steps that change thinking and behavior. It breaks problems into manageable parts and teaches tools for anxiety, depression, sleep, and many day-to-day struggles. Clients learn exercises and experiments they can try between sessions to track progress.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps when relationship patterns or intimacy issues cause pain. It looks at the emotions under behavior and helps people notice and shift how they respond to each other and themselves.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will ask about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they choose one or more methods and adjust them as needs change so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy lives. Video calls let the therapist and client work face to face when a deeper conversation is needed. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or when a simpler check-in fits a lunch break. Live chat and text messaging make it possible to share quick updates, get encouragement between sessions, and use short, structured coaching moments without scheduling a full call.
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What this therapist 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
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