Beatriz Zanichelli Sonego, BACP

Beatriz Zanichelli Sonego is an experienced clinical psychologist and counsellor with 15 years working across higher education, community services, healthcare settings and private practice. She grounds her work in psychodynamic principles while drawing on attachment-based, client-centered, cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior approaches to tailor therapy to each person's needs. Her practice has focused on helping adults manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, relationship and family concerns, self-esteem and intimacy-related issues, as well as eating, career and life transition challenges.

Beatriz is LGBTQIA+ affirmative and offers particular support around abandonment, attachment, codependency, blended family issues, caregiving stress, body image and other co-occurring concerns. As a migrant to the United Kingdom, she brings an understanding of the cultural and language adjustments that can accompany relocation and is able to work in both English and Portuguese. She is a member of BACP - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - which indicates professional affiliation with a UK counselling body.

Her approach emphasizes an individual, compassionate therapeutic conversation where the relationship between therapist and client shapes the work. She typically begins with an initial session to explore goals and assess whether ongoing psychotherapy could be helpful, and she aims to offer an open-ended, collaborative process that supports practical coping, greater self-understanding and clearer decision making.