About Sonja
Sonja Wittig is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who offers a calm, non-judgemental space for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety or depression. She also supports those dealing with trauma, abuse and LGBT concerns. Sonja speaks English and German and has four years of professional experience.
Her NCPS credential is listed as her professional registration. In sessions she focuses on listening first. She helps clients name feelings and notice how those feelings show up in the body.
Background and approach
Conversations are practical and grounded - clients leave with clearer steps and coping ideas they can try between sessions. Somatic approaches are part of her practice, helping people reconnect with physical sensations as a route to emotional change. She combines this with client-centred work that follows what each person brings to the room.
Mindfulness techniques are used to build attention and reduce reactivity. Sonja is experienced in working with life transitions and a range of relational and emotional issues. These include abandonment, attachment difficulties, body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness, codependency and communication problems.
She also supports people facing cancer, grief, divorce or separation. Her practical focus includes ways to manage dissociation, guilt and shame, loneliness and feelings of emptiness. Sessions aim to be steady and collaborative so clients can try new ways of coping at their own pace.
How Sonja’s approaches work in online sessions
Sonja uses somatic therapy to help people notice how emotions appear in the body, such as tightness, breath changes or restlessness, and then use that awareness to ease distress. This can be helpful for trauma, anxiety and persistent physical tension.She also draws on client-centred therapy which puts the person’s experience at the centre. That means sessions follow what matters most to the client and pace is set by their comfort and goals. Mindfulness practices are used to build attention, reduce reactivity and help people find small, steady ways to cope with difficult moments.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences, and adjust methods as the work progresses. This means trying techniques together and choosing what feels most useful.
Online therapy offers flexibility and access. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions suit quieter options, and live chat or text-based messaging can work for shorter check-ins or when writing feels easier. These formats make it possible to fit therapy around work, family or health needs and to continue the process from different locations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, German