About Sidonia
Sidonia Stiles is a counsellor who aims to help people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief and low mood. She uses plain conversation and practical tools so clients can make small changes that matter. Sessions are offered in English and Portuguese and she works with people remotely as well as from a practice in Eastbourne, United Kingdom.
Sidonia brings 27 years of experience working with groups and individuals. Before counselling she spent a decade as a group worker for the local council supporting young people in residential care.
Background and approach
That background informs her interest in attachment, family patterns and relationship dynamics. Her training includes a Higher National Diploma in Person-Centred counselling from 2006 and a Level 5 Diploma in Relationship Therapy from 2019 with the Counselling & Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
In sessions she often combines somatic awareness with talking therapy. That means noticing how feelings show up in the body, alongside exploring thoughts and memories. She also draws on acceptance and commitment ideas and attachment-focused work when helpful.
Sidonia uses tools such as genograms to look at family history and repeating patterns. She also supports people through bereavement using grief-informed approaches influenced by Gestalt ideas. Practical pacing and self-care are part of her day-to-day work.
People can meet her by video call, phone, live chat or messaging. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to availability.
How somatic and acceptance-based work translates online
Somatic-informed counselling pays attention to how feelings show up in the body, such as tension, breath or posture, and offers simple practices to notice and soothe those signals. This can help with anxiety, stress, trauma and chronic pain by linking bodily experience to what people say in sessions.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without trying to fight them, then choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, low mood and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early relationship patterns and how they influence current connections, helping people understand repeating cycles and try new ways of relating.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide whether somatic practices, ACT techniques or attachment-focused exploration best suit their goals and preferences. This is an ongoing conversation rather than a fixed plan.
Online sessions can be held by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging to fit different needs and schedules. Remote formats make it easier to attend from home, balance work or caregiving demands, and maintain continuity when travel is difficult. Therapists registered or accredited with recognised bodies commonly use these methods to keep therapy flexible and accessible.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Portuguese