Sophie Christie

Mondays to Fridays 8.30am - 5.30pm and some evening sessions online available. 

I am a BACP Accredited Psychotherapist, with over 16 years of experience in mental health, working with both young people and adults. I offer a secure, nurturing space, in which together, we can explore your thoughts and feelings, conscious and not so conscious processes, relationships, fears, dreams, hopes, and much more besides.

People come to therapy for a variety of reasons—whether it’s facing uncertainty, or anxiety, navigating life transitions, or seeking deeper self-understanding. Therapy can be an opportunity for you to experience and express your emotions, and, if you so desire, to learn strategies for emotional regulation. It can offer an opportunity to be seen, and heard, to work out what is holding you back in life, and to develop the tools for navigating your path with greater resilience.

I believe that within you lies the wisdom and strength needed to overcome the challenges you face; sometimes, we simply need a space to find our own answers within ourselves. A supportive relationship can help in bringing about such clarity; we are, after all, deeply relational beings, and our mental and emotional well-being is inescapably influenced by the contexts and people around us.

Our earliest relationships are particularly significant. Difficulties in relationships with family, friends, or partners can have a long-lasting impact on our emotional health, and therapy can be a powerful tool for addressing these foundational patterns, and exploring the ways in which relationships with others help you, and empower you, or hinder you, and disempower you. An important part of therapy can be setting ourselves free from relational patterns we may have needed to survive in childhood, but which may have become self-defeating, in adulthood. This can involve a focus not only on our relationships with others, but also on our relationships with self-limiting and repressed parts of ourselves, including self-critical, self-shaming, protective, creative, playful, and joyful parts.

About Me

I am a BACP Accredited Psychotherapist with over 18 years' experience working with young people and adults. My practice is grounded in a simple premise: distress is rarely a malfunction. It is an intelligible, adaptive response to what has happened to us — the power that was or was not available to us, and the meaning we made of it in order to survive.

This understanding draws on the Power Threat Meaning Framework, developed by the British Psychological Society, which reframes emotional distress and troubled behaviour as responses to adversity, trauma, and systemic inequality, rather than symptoms of illness. Instead of asking what is wrong with you, I ask what happened, what it meant, and what you had to become to get through it.

My Approach

My work includes attachment and relational theory, depth psychology,  trauma-informed practice, and family constellations. Much of what shapes us is inherited from the systems we grow up in  which often produce the very distress they later label as pathology. 

Healing is not only about regulating the nervous system it is about recognising where you were disempowered and finding your way back to yourself.

Areas of Specialism

— Coercive control — in intimate relationships, families, religious or institutional settings, and workplaces

— Boarding school — where early separation and institutional life shape compliance, hypervigilance, and disconnection from one's own truth 

— Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy — alongside private practice, I work in UK clinical trials researching psychedelic medicines

— Adolescents and young people, aged 11–18 — over 15 years' experience supporting young people and their families through the emotional and social demands of adolescence

We begin with an initial phone consultation from there, we schedule a first session. Sessions run 50 minutes, typically weekly, face-to-face or online. I work with adolescents and adults, individually and in groups.

I offer a 15 minute free consultation call, i have a short referral form I will ask you to complete before the session.