About Me
Sophie Kent
LMHC, Anxiety Specialist, Nice Human
Hi, nice to meet you! I’m Sophie, and most of my days are spent talking with people who have anxiety. I am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in the state of Florida and have over 8 years of experience in the mental health field.
I specialize in working with individuals who struggle with anything in the anxiety disorder category from generalized anxiety to OCD, agoraphobia, panic disorder, and a few others. I use evidence-based strategies including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Exposure Response Prevention, and Inference-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in my work.
Empowering people to get back to a life they love and re-engage with what’s most important to them is what I’m all about. The best part of my job is helping clients go from days shaped by anxiety and fear, to a life aligned with their values and purpose.
How I Ended Up Here
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I’ve always been interested in how we feel emotions and perceive the world around us. Why does one person see a dog and get scared, and another person doesn’t? These types of questions ran through my mind all the time. I loved to help people, and wondered if psychology was the way to combine my natural interest in the brain and do some good in the world. Spoiler alert, it was!
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Throughout college, I explored internships in private practice, nonprofit primary prevention curriculum development, and finally in a partial hospitalization program for those with significant mental health issues. This was my first time working with adults and teens with OCD/Anxiety. It was energizing, and seeing people make measurable progress was beyond rewarding. Throughout graduate school, I focused on anxiety disorders and landed my next year-long internship at a specialized anxiety disorder clinic.
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Working in the field for the last 5 years I started to notice gaps in what information people needed and what they had access to. I first noticed this in others who wanted to become therapists. Unfortunately, there are many misconceptions about my job, and not a lot of voices helping interested students get answers. So, I launched You Could Be A Therapist in 2023 – to help the potential therapist.
I continue to work in the anxiety disorders specialty because I truly enjoy it. Starting my practice has allowed me to make evidence based counseling even more accessible in my community through the “community based sessions” I offer. I hope to be doing this work for many years to come.