Sonya Kirven, LPC

Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Connecticut with 9 years of counseling experience, Sonya Kirven focuses on anxiety, depression, stress, self-esteem, relationship concerns, parenting strain, career questions, and coping with life changes. She also works with issues tied to abandonment, attachment, self-love, life purpose, and young adult transitions. Sessions are grounded in practical, goal-oriented work and informed by several therapeutic approaches.

Sonya takes an integrative approach that centers on cognitive behavior strategies. She uses tools from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Existential and solution-focused ideas as helpful. In a typical session she listens for what matters most to the person and then tries small, concrete steps that can be practiced between meetings.

She describes the therapeutic relationship as a collaborative place where the client leads and choice matters. Conversations include clarifying values, testing small changes, and building skills for managing anxious or low moods. Practical problem solving around career stress, parenting strain, or relationship conflicts is commonly part of the work.

Sonya’s background includes long experience with young adults and adults connected to child protective services, and nearly a decade of formal counseling practice. That history informs how she talks about attachment, abandonment, and relationship patterns without using jargon.

Sessions move at a steady, pragmatic pace and often include homework-sized experiments or brief behavioral exercises. People who want straightforward, skills-focused therapy that also attends to meaning and values may find this style useful.

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