Sonya Cook
Compassionate, experienced therapist for relationships and trauma
LMFT New York
- Experience
- 25 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Relationship, Family
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Sonya
Sonya Cook is a New York licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) with 25 years of professional experience working with stress, anxiety, relationship and family challenges, trauma and abuse, and parenting concerns.
Background and approach
She draws on a range of therapeutic perspectives to create treatment that responds to each person’s circumstances, tailoring conversations and interventions to address issues such as attachment and abandonment, communication difficulties, divorce and separation, and recovery from sexual assault or domestic violence.
Her practice emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion while helping clients navigate feelings of guilt, shame, panic, or a disrupted sense of life purpose. Sonya integrates cognitive behavioral techniques alongside client-centered and trauma-focused methods to help people clarify patterns, process painful experiences, and build practical skills for daily life.
She approaches therapy as a collaborative process, supporting clients as they take steps toward greater self-love, forgiveness, and healthier relationships. Based in New York, Sonya brings long-term clinical experience to each case and adapts her work to fit individual needs, with the goal of fostering resilience and meaningful change over time.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that adapt to your needs
Sonya commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help clients identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and then practice concrete skills to reduce anxiety, manage panic, and improve day-to-day functioning. She also draws on client-centered therapy, offering empathic, nonjudgmental listening that helps people feel understood while they explore their values and goals. These methods are often combined with trauma-focused techniques when past harm or abuse is part of the presenting concern to support processing and recovery.Choosing the right approach is treated as a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to assess needs, set goals, and adapt methods so the work matches preferences and life circumstances rather than prescribing a single path from the start.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. These options make it easier to fit regular sessions into busy lives and allow consistent therapeutic support even when in-person visits are not practical. Licensed professionals can use these formats to continue structured, goal-oriented work while accommodating each client’s routine and accessibility needs.
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Experience
25+ years
Licensed
New York
Languages
English