✷ Now accepting new clients ✷
✷ Now accepting new clients ✷
Sofia Nyberg (she)
Hello!
Sofia works with individuals, couples, and families in Washington via telehealth. She’s open for new clients and can begin immediately.
About
Sofia is a MEd Counseling candidate from the University of Puget Sound
She treats common mental health issues such as anxiety & depression. She has clinical experience working with women & survivors of sexual violence, OCD, & LGBTQ+ issues. Sofia works with various types of trauma (e.g., bullying, medical trauma, birth trauma, religious harm,) and she also treats those with more severe and persistent mental health issues, including personality disorders. Sofia is a neurodivergence-affirming therapist and she researches antiracist allyship in counseling psychology.
Issues Sofia specializes in:
Obsessive-Compulsive symptoms
Even a lot of clinicians miss OCD. It’s also got a bad rap socially. You don’t have to wash your hands or check the oven to qualify. OCD is an anxiety disorder. It comes about in childhood due to unmanageable circumstances (it’s also heritable, which could explain your parents’ problems). Using magical thinking, including chronic, un-reason-with-able shame, rumination, even chronic suicidal ideation can be mental compulsions that often get missed in general assessment.
Obsessive-Compulsive behavior, disorder (OCD), and personality disorder (OCPD) : This can manifests in body dysmorphia & eating disorders, hair-pulling, skin picking, hoarding, perfectionism, and relationship insecurity.
Twins, multiples, & their parents
Being a multiple is a unique experience that not every therapist can truly understand. Instead, most people fetishize twins and are fascinated with you. You don’t need to be your therapist’s fascination. Twins have issues whether they are close or cutoff. Competition and jealousy can appear in the sibling relationship, as well as outside of it. Feelings of loneliness can arise when you’re not with someone else, which can lead to codependency. Deep connection but also enmeshment can arise. And individuals may have trouble intuitively knowing their own identity apart from their sibling, relying on them for more support than spouses and parents.
LGBTQ+
We work with people across the lifespan who are questioning, exploring, blossoming, struggling with, and learning more about their identity. Whether it’s their attractions (or absence of them), their relationship structure desires (monogamy and polyamory), and sexual exploration (kink & BDSM). Pronouns, gender, affirming care, HRT, - we’ve got you covered. We also work with parents who need to understand their queer child.
Personality Disorders
Many therapists shy away from working with those who suffer with personality disordered traits and behaviors. We are here to support you if you’re wondering if you have a personality disorder, if you’ve been diagnosed and don’t know what to do next, or if you’ve got a handle on things but it’s still interfering with your relationships and sense of self.
More of the issues we work with:
Communication Skills for Couples
We work with couples (and adult child-parent dyads as well as adult siblings), especially queer folks. Journey through communication skills, deepening honesty, regulating yourself, learning about each other’s past in a different way, creating deeper compassion and understanding, and maximizing love and pleasure in a consent culture. The journey is rewarding (and sometimes hard), the destination is wellness. We promise to keep a sense of humor flowing along the way.
Heartbreak
Breaking up, being dumped, unrequited love, and feelings of grief. These are all too painful to sit with on our own. Therapy helps us metabolize the feeling of loss and love. When they’re mixed together, it can be painful and make us feel unlovable. You are not unlovable. Your wellbeing is worth it.
Political Hellscape
How you doin? It’s rough out there. Dumpsters are blazing. People are wilin’. The news makes you need a TUMS. Let’s. Get. Grounded.
Fear, anger, fear again, anger again. It’s a merry-go-round no one wants to be on! How do we cope? Let’s unpack, learn new skills, be witnessed and be together. We’ve got this.
Trauma
We work with a variety of different trauma: medical, religious, sexual abuse & rape, physical accidents, physical abuse and intimate partner violence (IPV), financial, stuttering & bullying, developmental neglect, & addiction to name a few. We deal heavily in C-PTSD, a term that is not formalized but represents the experience of multiple adverse experiences across the lifespan.
Creative Types
If you’re an artist of any kind: musician, designer, actor, or visual artist, you may experience artist’s block, imposter syndrome, comparison/envy, or feelings of grief. If you struggle to identify as an artist, thinking you’re not really good enough to be An Artist, therapy can help. As someone who’s been an art person and teacher since forever, I deeply slign with all the challenges creatives face. I’d love nothing more than to help you get back to the joy and pleasure art can give us.
Supervision
Sofia is working under the supervision of Art Therapy for All’s Executive Director, Jess Minckley, LMHC, ATR-BC. Their LMHC license # in Washington state is LH61457229 which can be verified here. She is also being supervised by faculty in the counseling program at the University of Puget Sound. This means that there’s actually more oversight of their work than a licensed therapist! So, you’re in good hands.
