Sophie Lockwood, BACP

Sophie Lockwood is a UK-licensed counsellor with four years of professional experience supporting people through a range of mental health and life challenges. She works with stress and anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, bipolar disorder, depression, relationship and family difficulties, grief, anger, and self-esteem issues. Sophie also brings focused experience in areas such as sexual health and kink culture, domestic violence, dissociation, and substance misuse, and she has worked with clients facing serious medical and end-of-life concerns.

Sophie practices from a person-centred perspective, believing that each person is the expert on their own story and that therapy should build on a client’s existing strengths. Her approach is non-directive and supportive, creating space for clients to explore present difficulties and unprocessed past events at their own pace. Sophie has significant experience working with women who have experienced sexual trauma, violence, exploitation, and trafficking, and she has previously worked as a Recovery Worker and Harm Reduction Worker supporting people with substance misuse.

Throughout her work Sophie aims to help people understand why they feel the way they do and to unpick patterns that keep them stuck, so they can move toward greater self-sufficiency and wellbeing. She is a registered member of the BACP - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - and follows its professional guidelines and ethical code.