• Become the best person they can be.
• Develop the most rewarding relationships they can have.
• Use their unique qualities, abilities and strengths so they will be able to pursue their most cherished dreams.
• Achieve maximum personal development and growth.
• Enjoy each step along their life's journey.

 

Desire

 Sonja's desire is to:

• Help those who struggle with difficulties in their lives (who've had it tough in the past or are finding little joy in their present) to overcome their hurdles, develop their strengths and discover their brilliance.
• Assist those who just need a kick-start towards implementing empowering changes so that they may be able to move towards a more satisfying future.
• Walk alongside those who are grieving a loss (whether their grief is due to the death of a loved one or to separation or divorce…or the loss of a person, a hope, a vision or dream).
• Enable those who are suffering the pain of disappointment, rejection, anger, failure (or fear of failure); an inability to forgive or to move beyond these crippling emotions.
• Assist those who suffer the agonies of depression and crippling anxiety by devising the kind of life-strategies that will lead them out of their pain.
• Enable those who are lacking in work/life balance, have difficulties in prioritising and/or are slaves to their jobs, to develop healthier ways of functioning within their environment.
• Assist those who struggle with relationship issues (in their marriage, their partnership, their friendships, their families or their work environment) to develop more satisfying and successful ways of relating.

In summary, Sonja's desire is to ENCOURAGE, EMPOWER AND INSPIRE each individual, whose life  she's had the privilege of touching, to create a life for themselves of which they can be proud  -  a life filled with purpose, joy, love, happiness and peace.

 

Commitment

 Sonja's commitment is to:

• Give each individual whose struggles, pains, concerns, desires, dream and goals I have the privilege of sharing, my complete and undivided attention.
• To respect each person's uniqueness and individuality.
• To acknowledge, respect and honour each person's right to self-determination, personal values, beliefs and choices.
• To confidentiality.

 

Qualifications

Sonja's qualifications:  

Master of Counselling degree – University of Western Sydney

Graduate Diploma – Australian College of Applied Psychology

NLP Training – Australian College of Applied Psychology

Cert IV – Assessment and Workplace Training

 

Memberships

Sonja's  memberships:

R.M.P.A.C.F.A. - Registered Member of The Psychotherapy & Counselling Federation of Australia

C.M.C.A.P.A. - Clinical Member of The Counselling & Psychotherapy Association of New South Wales

A.M.I.G.L. - Associate Member of The Institute of Group Leaders 

 

Media

Sonja's Media appearances:

INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION
CHANNEL NEWSASIA/SINGAPORE
Prime Time Breakfast TV with Gerard Lam & Suzanne Jung

RADIO
FM93.8 - "Parenting Today" WITH Susan Ng

NATIONAL
SBS TV
CHANNEL 7 (Today Tonight)

Life Matters
ABC Radio
Tony Delroy

NSW & ACT   
Hornsby Advocate
Manly Daily
North Shore Times
Sydney Weekly

Radio 2GB
Radio 2CN ABC Canberra
Radio 2NC ABC Newcastle
Radio 2GF Grafton Radio 2Brock Radio 2RG Radio Triple Z
Radio 103.2FM

VIC
The Age
Radio 3AW
Radio 3AK
Radio Southern FM
Radio 927 Sport
Radio 3RPP

SA/NT
Radio 5AA
Radio 5DN
ABC Territory

WA/TAS/QLD
Radio 4MI Mt Isa ABC
Radio 7ZR ABC Hobart
ABC Radio Gold Coast
Radio Bay FM Sunshine Coast
Radio ABC WA

Motto

Some of Sonja's most cherished mottos are:

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)