Hi, my name is Sonia, and I work as a Psychosexual and Relationship Therapist. I currently work as a Psychosexual Therapist in the NHS too, in a Female Sexual Function clinic in a Clinical Health Psychology Department. This is following over 30 years of experience working in Health and Social Care, including over twenty years in Child Protection and Substance Use.
One of my key areas of specialist work is working with trauma as this is an area that I am passionate about. Working within the Child Protection field, especially working within the family dynamic supporting complex trauma, has helped me to be the therapist I am today.
I enjoy working with individuals, couples, relationship dynamics including polyamory and non monogamy, porn and sex addiction, BDSM, supporting people navigating sex when one or more than one in the relationship is neurodivergent, the kink community, and the Trans community. This includes people who have had gender assignment surgery, help those in need to manage sexual function post surgery, and anyone with any sexual function issues. For example, this can be those with loss of sexual desire / arousal, erectile dysfunction, sexual pain or trauma, vaginismus, and vulvodynia.
By giving people time and space to be curious has yielded positive results, especially with the many children and adults I have supported with multiple complex issues. I like to be creative, involve the client in decision making and reviewing, give them reflections and tasks to take from the session to work on in your own time, helping them connect their mind and body using Somatic work, instilling hope or give a remind there is hope, and having a sense of humour to help remember the human aspect of life and therapy.
My aim during therapy is to help you feel that it is possible to make changes and that there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
When booking, any of our in person sessions can be changed to a virtual session. Book your session first and then pop the therapist and hey@theselfspace.com an email to let them know.
Email: sonia@theselfspace.com
