With over 13 years of private practice experience and 25+ years in the mental health field, Sonja Hookway specialises in online trauma-informed therapy tailored to your individual needs. Her extensive background and compassionate approach make her a trusted partner on your journey toward mental health and personal growth.
Sonja offers an effective space for growth and change, combining a range of theories and psychological therapies. The scope, flexibility and creativity of integrative training made sense to her.
Her core trainings include relational Transactional Analysis, Gestalt, psychodynamic theory, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and relational neuroscience.
She continues to build on this, having extensive CPD trainings in Internal Family Systems (with Richard Schwartz) ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy.
She has a compassionate, trauma-informed, parts-focused and somatically aware therapeutic approach, that blends elements from several modalities into a coherent method for working with complex trauma and dissociations.
UKCP accredited training is extensive and recognised as a gold standard in the therapy professions. has experience in working with people who have a wide range of life problems and diagnosis. These include attachment issues, stress, addiction, developmental trauma, anxiety, depression, OCD (including ‘Pure’ form OCD), bereavement, sexual abuse, self harm, eating disorders, DID and other dissociation difficulties, personality adaptation and relationship difficulties, including family estrangement.
A relational approach welcomes discussion of the process of your therapy. Expect a clear contract on the issues you choose to work with, supporting the freedom to make real choices on your life path .
