- Stress and anxiety
- Attention and focus
- Guilt and shame
About Sonya
Sonya Young is a California LPCC - Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor with five years of post-licensure experience. She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and difficulties with attention and focus. Her work also addresses guilt and shame, body image, communication problems, forgiveness, loneliness, and social anxiety.
She uses straightforward conversation to help people make sense of what they are feeling. Sessions look at what keeps a problem going and what practical steps could ease it. Sonya treats attention and focus struggles as part of everyday life rather than as a label people must fit into.
Her approach recognizes that each person knows their story best. She listens for strengths and resources the person already has. Then she offers techniques and perspectives that people can try between sessions to test what helps.
Sonya frames progress as small, testable steps rather than sudden fixes. She encourages work on specific situations - for example, reducing the hold of shame after an argument or learning routines that support better concentration. Her aim is to help people find ways to carry less weight from guilt and to act with more clarity.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session. Sonya works in California and conducts sessions in English.
How her approaches translate to online work
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques focus on specific patterns that maintain distress. One common approach looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep anxiety and shame active and offers simple experiments to test different ways of responding. Another approach targets attention and organization, teaching small routines and strategies to make focus and memory easier in daily life. Each method is practical and aimed at things people can try between sessions.Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk through what has and hasn’t helped, set modest goals, and adjust methods as needed. The client’s feedback guides whether to try a different technique or keep building on what works.
Confirm the available session formats before booking, as the biography does not list them explicitly. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a week - for example, shorter check-ins during a lunch break, or scheduling a session without travel time. It can also let people use video when they want face-to-face contact or choose audio when bandwidth is limited. These options help sessions fit everyday life while the therapist and client focus on practical steps for reducing guilt, improving focus, and easing anxiety.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Experience
5+ years
Listed in
California
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, self-esteem, depression, and ADHD-related focus issues, plus related concerns like body image, communication problems, and guilt and shame.
How does she approach feelings of guilt or shame?
She helps people talk through what they did or didn’t do and looks for practical steps to reduce the feeling’s daily impact rather than promising forgiveness.
What is her clinical background?
She holds the LPCC credential and has five years of experience since initial licensure working with the listed concerns.
Where does she practice and what is her credential?
She is licensed in California as an LPCC - Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor and sees people from that state.
Can I work with her if I speak another language?
Sessions are offered in English.
Does she see clients outside the United States?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How does payment work?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin a first session?
Choose the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule your first session.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger or thinking about harming yourself, use the crisis numbers.