Sophie Bellamy

Sophie Bellamy is a counsellor who helps people facing a wide range of concerns, including trauma and abuse, anxiety, depression, addiction and issues around self-esteem. She also supports people dealing with grief, parenting stress, relationship and intimacy-related worries, and life changes such as career transitions or health challenges. Sophie works in the United Kingdom and speaks English.

Sophie draws on an integrative, relational model that emphasises development and attachment. She combines ideas from Gestalt and attachment-based thinking with approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy. Sessions are conversational and aimed at making sense of patterns that cause distress.

Her style is warm and non-judgemental. Sophie focuses on helping people find practical ways to manage difficult feelings and rebuild important relationships. Expect a mix of talking, reflection and small experiments to test new ways of coping.

Sophie has five years of experience and holds BACP registration, which is shown as BACP. She has worked with people facing complex, overlapping difficulties such as chronic illness, caregiving stress, and co-morbidity alongside mental health concerns.

People often come with concerns about attachment, abandonment, adoption and foster care, neurodiversity, body image and sexual culture matters such as BDSM and kink. Sophie aims to help individuals find clearer choices and more manageable day-to-day routines, so life feels more livable and relationships more repairable.

Approaches that translate to online work

Sophie uses several approaches that adapt well to remote sessions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and supports taking committed steps toward personal values. This approach often helps with anxiety, depression and life changes.

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationship patterns shape current connections. It helps people understand why they react in certain ways in close relationships and find calmer ways of relating. Client-Centred Therapy centres the person’s own experience, offering empathic listening and space to explore concerns at the person’s pace, which can be useful for building self-esteem and working through grief.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sophie will collaborate with each person to identify what fits their needs, goals and preferences. She may draw on one approach more than another, or blend methods, and will discuss this together as the therapy progresses.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm current session options before booking as the biography does not list formats. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also make it simpler to attend from different locations when life or work requires flexibility.