Sidonia Stiles
Experienced counsellor for relationships and grief
BACP United Kingdom
- Experience
- 27 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Relationship, Grief
- Approaches
- Gottman Method, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
About Sidonia
Sidonia Stiles welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by life changes, grief, persistent worry or relationship difficulties. She writes clearly and listens closely.
Background and approach
Sessions are aimed at helping people understand what matters to them and find manageable steps forward. Sonia trained in person-centred counselling and later completed a diploma in relationship therapy.
She has 27 years of experience working in community settings and runs a independent practice based in the United Kingdom. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
In appointments she uses simple tools to map patterns from family history and upbringing. Genograms are one of the practical ways she helps people see repeated patterns and how those affect current choices.
This can be useful when dealing with attachment, communication problems, blended family issues and long-standing conflict. She also supports people who are grieving or coping with loss, drawing on Gestalt ideas around how grief is experienced and honoured.
For anxiety, depression and stress she mixes straightforward skills from cognitive behavioural approaches with the person-centred emphasis on the client’s own priorities. Sessions are available in English and Portuguese.
Sidonia offers several online formats as well as in-person work from her Eastbourne practice, and she has experience with LGBT clients in both relationship and one-to-one work. People usually start by describing their immediate concern and then together they decide small, achievable steps.
The focus is on practical progress and clearer understanding, not on jargon or long lectures.
Approaches used online and how they help
Sidonia commonly draws on the Gottman Method to help people better understand communication patterns and reduce repeated arguments. That approach focuses on concrete ways to improve listening and rebuild trust between people.She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy - ACT - which teaches practical skills to accept difficult thoughts and commit to actions that match personal values. ACT can be useful for anxiety, low mood and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy is another strand of her work; it looks at early relationship patterns and how they shape current needs and reactions, which is helpful for intimacy and attachment concerns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences and together you'll decide which methods fit best. This collaborative process helps shape a plan you feel comfortable using week to week.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls are close to face-to-face sessions and work well for visual cues. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a lunch break. Live chat or text-based messaging suit short check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care and fit therapy around everyday life.
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Experience
27+ years
Registered with
BACP
Languages
English, Portuguese