Sidonia Stiles, BACP
27 years in practice
Sidonia Stiles is a counsellor with 27 years of experience who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief and relationship concerns.
License and registration
- BACP
- 389622 · expires October 2026
- Years in practice
- 27
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
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About Sidonia
Sidonia Stiles is a counsellor with 27 years of experience who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief and relationship concerns. She also supports those coping with depression, addiction, intimacy issues and career strain. Sidonia works in English and Portuguese and offers sessions online to international clients.
She uses an Emotionally-Focused Therapy perspective alongside Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-based ideas. Her style is person-centred, which means she aims to listen without judgement and follow the pace a person needs.
Background and approach
Practical tools from cognitive behavioural approaches and ACT are used when they fit the person's goals. Sidonia trained with the Counselling & Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body and holds a Level 5 Diploma in Relationship Therapy. She is a BACP-registered counsellor and also has an HND Diploma in Person-Centred counselling.
Her background includes ten years working as a group worker with residential young people for the local council, encountering family dynamics and challenging relationships. In sessions she explores how upbringing and attachment shape relationships and reactions to loss or stress. She sometimes uses genograms to map family patterns and origins of conflict in a clear way.
For grief work she draws on Gestalt ideas to honour each person's experience of loss. Sidonia offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time and costs vary with location and therapist availability.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Sidonia lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Sidonia names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
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Online support
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Emotionally-Focused Therapy focuses on the emotions beneath relationship patterns and personal difficulties. It helps people identify, name and shift emotional responses that keep them stuck, especially around close relationships and attachment wounds.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) teaches practical ways to live with difficult thoughts and feelings while taking steps that match personal values. It can help with anxiety, depression and coping with life changes by building flexible responses rather than trying to eliminate difficult feelings.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early relationship patterns and how they shape current bonds and reactions. It is useful for people who want to understand how upbringing affects intimacy, communication and trust.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with clients about goals, preferences and what feels most useful, and together they will pick or combine approaches that suit the situation.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video calls let people connect face to face, phone sessions can fit into a short break or use less bandwidth, and messaging suits brief check-ins or those who prefer writing. These options make therapy easier to fit around work, family and travel commitments.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does she help with?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship issues, grief, addictions and intimacy-related matters among other concerns.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her work is person-centred and warm, using Emotionally-Focused Therapy ideas alongside ACT and cognitive behavioural tools when helpful.
How much experience does she have?
Sidonia has 27 years of experience, including ten years as a group worker with residential young people for a local council.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is BACP registered, holds an HND Diploma in Person-Centred counselling and a Level 5 Diploma in Relationship Therapy, and is based in the United Kingdom.
Which languages are supported and can she work internationally?
Sessions are offered in English and Portuguese, and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be held by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging.
How are sessions priced?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
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