Sonya Kirven

Sonya Kirven, LPC, is a licensed counselor practicing in Connecticut with nine years of clinical experience. Her work centers on concerns such as stress, anxiety, self esteem, depression, coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, relationships, parenting, and career questions. Additional focus areas include abandonment, attachment issues, life purpose, self-love, and young adult issues.

Her approach integrates several evidence-informed models while maintaining a strong grounding in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Existential Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Solution-Focused Therapy to tailor sessions to each person’s needs. Methods are selected to match goals and to encourage practical steps forward.

Sonya aims to create a collaborative therapeutic process in which the individual’s perspective guides the work. She emphasizes a strength-based, person-centered stance and offers support and guidance as different strategies are explored. When one approach does not fit, she adapts the plan and introduces alternatives so the work can continue moving toward whatever the client defines as progress.