Sophie Landers

Name: Sophie Landers
Price range: £65.00 per session

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PGDipCouns, Integrative Psychotherapist MBACP

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London NW5 & E17

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About me

Hi, I’m Sophie, an Integrative Counsellor & Psychotherapist (BACP) and a working musician.

I work with people who feel overwhelmed, stuck, disconnected from themselves, or caught in patterns they don’t fully understand. I also have a particular interest in working with musicians, creatives, and people who have never felt entirely at home in conventional spaces.

You may be here because you feel anxious, burnt out, lost, emotionally overwhelmed, or unsure of who you are right now. You might find yourself overthinking everything, struggling with confidence, repeating the same patterns in relationships, or carrying experiences from the past that still seem to shape how you feel and respond.

Therapy with me isn’t about becoming a more acceptable or polished version of yourself. It’s about understanding yourself more deeply, your relationships, your history, your defences, your contradictions, and finding a way of living that feels more like your own.

How I Work
My approach is warm, relational and grounded.

I won’t sit back and analyse you from a distance, and I won’t rush you towards solutions before we understand what is actually happening for you.

Instead, we’ll explore your thoughts, feelings, relationships and patterns together, with curiosity rather than judgement.

We may look at what is happening in your life now, how earlier experiences have shaped the way you see yourself and relate to other people, and what you might need in order to feel more secure, connected and able to trust yourself.

I pay attention not only to what you tell me, but also to what happens between us in the room. Therapy is a relationship, and sometimes the patterns we are trying to understand begin to show themselves there too.

The work can help you feel:

More grounded and emotionally steady
Clearer about what you want and need
Less consumed by overthinking
More confident in your own judgement
More able to recognise and change unhealthy patterns
More connected to yourself and to other people

Musicians, Creatives & Alternative Lives

Alongside being a therapist, I’m also an active musician.

I understand from the inside that creative life can be exhilarating, meaningful and deeply exposing. Your work, identity, relationships, income, image and sense of self-worth can easily become tangled together in ways that people outside that world do not always understand.

Creative careers can also come with instability, rejection, comparison, touring, public scrutiny, pressure to constantly produce, and the strange experience of having something deeply personal turned into something other people judge.

I work with musicians, artists and other creative people around issues including:

Identity and self-worth, particularly when they are tied to success or output
Perfectionism and creative paralysis
Performance anxiety
Burnout and losing connection with your work
Rejection, criticism and comparison
Relationship strain
Touring fatigue and instability
Emotional overwhelm
Major transitions and reinvention
Grief and loss
Feeling different, misunderstood or outside the mainstream

You do not need to make yourself more conventional in order to benefit from therapy.

For some people, simply knowing they are speaking to someone who understands creative and alternative cultures can make it easier to arrive as themselves rather than feeling they need to translate or explain who they are.

This is an area I care deeply about, but you do not need to be a musician, artist or part of an alternative scene to work with me. I welcome clients from all backgrounds.

What Working With Me Feels Like

I aim to offer a calm, thoughtful space where you can speak openly without feeling judged, analysed or rushed.

You can expect someone who listens closely, engages with you, asks questions and is willing to think alongside you rather than simply reflect your words back.

There may be moments of challenge as well as support. Part of therapy can involve noticing things that have previously been difficult to see, including patterns that once protected you but may no longer be helping.

We work at a pace that feels manageable, while still allowing room for something meaningful to change.

You do not need to arrive knowing exactly what is wrong or what you want therapy to achieve. Sometimes the starting point is simply knowing that something does not feel right anymore.

Free 15-Minute Introduction Call
I offer a free 15-minute introductory call so that we can meet briefly before deciding whether to work together.

Therapy is, at its heart, a relationship, and finding the right therapist matters.

The call is not a formal assessment. You can tell me a little about what has brought you to therapy, ask questions about how I work, and get a sense of what it feels like to speak with me.

There is no pressure to disclose anything you are not ready to discuss and no expectation that you make a decision immediately.

Sometimes what people are looking for is not simply a technique or coping strategy, but a different experience of being listened to and understood.

What to Expect in the First Session
The first session gives us more space to begin understanding what has brought you to therapy.

Rather than rushing immediately towards goals or solutions, I am interested in getting a sense of you. What is happening in your life, what feels difficult, the relationships and experiences that have shaped you, and what you hope might become different.

We’ll also take some time to agree on practicalities and boundaries, so that the work has a safe and clear framework to develop within.

The first session is less about fixing something and more about beginning to understand it.

From there, we build the work together.