About Sonya
Dr. Sonya McCurdy is a licensed clinical social worker with more than 21 years of clinical experience. She practices in Alabama and brings steady, practical support for people facing mood, anxiety, trauma, and life-change challenges.
Her approach is warm and straightforward, aimed at helping clients make small, useful changes that add up over time. She focuses on common concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and ADHD. She also works with people navigating relationship, intimacy, and parenting strain as well as career transitions and coping after loss.
Background and approach
Clients may find her helpful for concerns tied to trauma, bipolar mood patterns, and self-esteem struggles. Dr. McCurdy blends client-centered listening with structured tools.
She uses cognitive behavioral strategies to identify unhelpful thinking and behavioral patterns. She also draws on dialectical behavior methods to teach emotion regulation and mindfulness practices to rebuild attention and presence. Sessions are shaped around each person’s goals and daily life.
She aims to make conversations clear and practical, with specific skills to try between meetings. If a different match would serve someone better, she can provide referrals to other clinicians. People who choose her often want guidance from an experienced social worker who keeps things direct and compassionate.
She encourages pacing that fits each person’s comfort level and life demands, helping them build routines and habits that support lasting change.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Dr. McCurdy uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness-based practices to help clients change unhelpful thoughts and build steady routines. CBT involves identifying thinking patterns that lead to distress and testing new behaviors to see what helps. Mindfulness work focuses on simple attention and breathing exercises that reduce reactivity and improve focus, which can be useful for anxiety, stress, and attention concerns.She also brings client-centered care into online sessions, which means meetings start with listening to what matters most to each person. Together the client and therapist decide which approaches to try and adjust methods based on progress. Finding the right fit is a collaborative process and the plan can change as goals evolve.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and skill practice, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat suits brief check-ins or on-the-go support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving routines while keeping continuity between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English
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