Sonya Kirven, LPC

Connecticut · 9 years in practice

Sonya Kirven is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with nine years of counseling experience.

License and registration

LPC, Connecticut: 004337 · expires February 2027
NPI: 1649702515 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 9
Languages: English

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About Sonya

Sonya Kirven is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with nine years of counseling experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and the strain of life changes. Sonya aims to create a nonjudgmental space where clients can talk, reflect, and set clear goals.

She uses a practical, person-centered style that draws on cognitive behavioral ideas. Sessions tend to focus on what is happening now, and on doable steps to reduce distress and build skills.

Background and approach

Sonya also uses motivational interviewing techniques to help clients find internal reasons to change. Clients often come with worries about relationships, parenting challenges, career decisions, or feeling burned out from compassion fatigue. Sonya also helps people dealing with attachment issues, abandonment wounds, questions about life purpose, and self-love.

She has experience supporting young adults as they navigate transitions and identity concerns. In sessions Sonya emphasizes partnership. She listens first, and then offers concrete tools to try between meetings.

If one approach does not help, she suggests alternatives and adjusts the plan together with the client. Sonya practices in Connecticut and conducts therapy in English. Her work is grounded in straightforward conversation and collaborative problem solving.

Many clients appreciate her calm manner and focus on practical next steps.

Focus areas and approaches

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Online support

How Sonya’s approaches translate to online therapy

Existential therapy helps people tackle big questions about meaning, responsibility, and choices. It often involves talking through values and what matters most when life feels uncertain. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, encourages noticing difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to actions that reflect personal values; it is useful for anxiety, stress, and low motivation.

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and following the client’s lead. That approach creates space for honest conversation and makes it easier to try practical changes together. Sonya combines these perspectives to tailor sessions to each person’s needs, and she treats finding the right mix as a collaborative process between therapist and client.

Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be quieter and require less bandwidth. Live chat or text messaging support brief check-ins and flexible, on-the-go communication. These options make it easier to schedule around work, school, or caregiving and to keep therapy consistent even when life is busy.

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Questions people ask

What concerns does Sonya commonly address?

She helps people with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and coping with life changes. She also focuses on relationship strain, parenting questions, career worries, compassion fatigue, abandonment, attachment issues, life purpose, self-love, and young adult issues.

How does she approach therapy?

Her style is person-centered and practical. She blends cognitive behavioral ideas with motivational interviewing and existential thinking to help clients set goals and try concrete steps.

How much experience does she have?

She has nine years of counseling experience working directly with clients, and broader helping-field experience over more than a decade.

What are her credentials and where is she based?

She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, and practices in Connecticut.

What languages are supported and are international clients accepted?

Sessions are offered in English. She is not currently accepting international clients.

Which session formats are offered?

Therapy is available via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different schedules and needs.

How is cost handled for sessions?

Cost varies by location and therapist availability. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

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