Offering in-person and telehealth sessions

Sophie Lyons-Covarrubias is a white, queer, cis-ish woman and pre-licensed mental health counselor specializing in LGBTQIA2S+ care. Their work centers on supporting queer people across all intersections of identity, with a particular focus on trans and gender-affirming therapy. Sophie provides individual, couples, family, and group therapy for clients ages 12 and up of all identities. She offers a supportive, affirming space for clients to explore identity, embodiment, and pleasure through a lens that normalizes curiosity, consent, and compassion at all developmental stages.

Sophie is currently working towards their license in Mental Health Counseling and is supervised by Dr. Bryan Harnsberger, Psy.D.  They have experience working in trauma-informed settings, including peer-to-peer recovery spaces, residential care, and outpatient therapy. Their clinical approach is trauma-informed, drawing from Gestalt approaches, relational-cultural theory, and parts-based frameworks to support clients in building awareness. Sophie sees therapy as a collaborative process rooted in authenticity and grounded in mutual respect and trust. Their work explicitly acknowledges the systems of harm we live within and how these factors can increase stress, trauma, and impact mental health. Sophie supports clients in building self-trust, internal connection, and greater presence while holding both personal experience and broader social context. She is especially passionate about working with queer and trans people navigating gender affirmation and sexual exploration, as well as people of all identities navigating healing from trauma, anxiety, disordered eating, and addiction. Their clinical work is rooted in culturally responsive, identity-affirming, and anti-oppressive care that honors both the wisdom of the body and the complexity of lived experience.

Clients often describe Sophie as warm, attuned, and gently direct. She is not a blank slate therapist, and believes it’s important for therapists to model what it looks like to be human, while remaining grounded in clinical care and ethics. Sessions often move at a pace guided by clients nervous system and their needs in the moment, by blending conversation with gentle attention to what’s happening in their bodies. Sophie follows the client’s lead while offering structure when it feels supportive, and gently challenges patterns or beliefs in service of growth and self-understanding. Therapy with Sophie is exploratory and relational, with space to slow down, reflect, and notice how emotions, thoughts, and sensations arise in the here and now. With a background in yoga therapy, Sophie is an 800-hour certified TCTSY-F yoga facilitator with advanced training in trauma-sensitive modalities, including Sensory Motor Arousal Regulation Treatment (SMART). Body-based work may show up in sessions through noticing clients, posture, breath, energy, facial expressions, and through curious questions about what clients are sensing internally as emotions and experiences are explored. This work is always invitational, prioritizing choice, consent, and safety. 

Sophie moved to Massachusetts for their undergraduate studies and has remained deeply connected to the Greater Boston community through teaching yoga. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Holistic Psychology and Wellness from Lesley University, with a specialization in yoga therapy and a focus on trauma. Sophie completed their Master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at William James College, with a concentration in LGBTQIA2S+ mental health. Outside of their clinical work, Sophie enjoys getting outside, soaking up the sun, and being in community. They also love quiet evenings at home with their wife and cats, reading or binging a TV show. These grounding connections, to land, loved ones, and shared joy are central to their personal wellness and the healing work she brings into the field of mental health.

Sophie also offers gender-affirming care and surgery letters, supporting clients in accessing medically necessary and affirming treatment.