Sophie De Carvalho
Attentive person-centred counsellor
About Sophie
Sophie De Carvalho helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, and low self-esteem. She is a BACP counsellor and presents a calm, attentive presence in sessions. Sophie aims to make clients feel seen and heard while they talk about what matters now.
Sophie uses a person-centred stance that keeps the client's experience at the centre of conversation. She also draws on a range of evidence-based techniques when helpful, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Transactional Analysis, Gestalt, psychodynamic ideas and Attachment Theory.
Background and approach
Those tools are used to help people notice patterns and try different ways of responding. Her work pays attention to cultural background, identity and the effects of neglect, oppression and racism on wellbeing. Sophie listens for how past relationships and experiences shape present feelings, and she helps people connect those links in simple, clear ways.
Sessions aim to deepen self-understanding without rushing change. People bring a wide variety of problems, such as family issues, difficulties with communication or commitment, struggles with body image, and experiences of domestic violence or abandonment. Sophie also supports those dealing with eating and food-related issues, dissociation and mood challenges like Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder.
Her style is gentle and non-judgemental. Sophie offers a holding space to talk through overwhelming feelings and to test practical steps for change. Practical tasks and reflections may be suggested between sessions to build new responses over time.
What Sophie works with
Sessions & fees
Approaches and Online Support for Everyday Struggles
Sophie draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in simple, practical ways to help people notice unhelpful thought and behaviour patterns. CBT techniques can be useful for managing anxiety, stress and low mood by testing and changing small habits and beliefs.She also uses Attachment Theory ideas to look at how early relationships shape current reactions. That perspective can help people make sense of trust, closeness and repeated relationship patterns that cause pain.
Choosing the right approach is a joint process. Sophie works with each person to agree which ideas and techniques feel most useful, checking in as things progress so the plan can be adjusted to match goals and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexibility and practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier for a short check-in, and live chat or text-based messaging suits those who prefer written reflection or need asynchronous contact. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving and day-to-day life while keeping the focus on steady progress.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
