Specialist Counselling & Psychotherapy Services
Specialist Counselling & Psychotherapy Services
Specialist Counselling & Psychotherapy Services
Welcome
Thank you for your interest in Audire Collective “The Listening Economy” led by Sonia Vivinne, BSc Counsellor and Psychotherapist
Audire Collective is a relational wellbeing practice working with both organisations and families looking to improve partnership relationships and joint working. Using our unique co creation model “The Listening Economy” we work towards outcomes that show the true value of togetherness and social capital when voices are listened to and heard. We bring both parties together working strategically with change and decision makers as well as practitioners whilst offering listening-led support more locally for individuals, families and communities they work alongside. Our work is rooted in justice-adjacent and high-responsibility contexts, where emotional load, moral complexity, and long-term impact are often carried quietly and without adequate containment.
We specialise in supporting VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) organisations with trauma informed approaches to better manage the uncertainties that working with vulnerable families can bring. We offer a variety of services to support the needs of multi-disciplinary organisations whilst leading holistic inclusive practices.
We are committed to diversity and inclusion and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) principally ‘Good Health and Wellbeing’ ‘Reducing Inequalities’ ‘Peace Justice and Strong Institutions’ and ‘Partnerships for Goals’ which underpin all of our work. Our typical clients include leadership teams in the prison service, NHS, specialist education provisions, PRUs, police, fire services, social care and clinical therapy teams and we also support professionals as private clients and undertake family mediation work.
When This Work Is Most Needed
- When organisations want to strengthen relationships with families
- When conflict or breakdown is impacting trust, communication, or outcomes
- When teams are supporting vulnerable or marginalised families
- When practitioners need containment, reflection, and ethical oversight
- When organisations want to deepen social value, inclusion and impact, not just compliance
Whilst we are based in Manchester UK, we serve clients globally on a remote basis whilst assisting face to face clients more locally at our practice.
It’s okay to seek assistance as a team, professionally or personally – you are at the right place and in good hands.
About Me
I’m Sonia Vivinne, Founder and Lead Practitioner of Audire Collective.
With over 15 years as an experienced facilitator, I am also a qualified counsellor and psychotherapist working within professional and regulatory frameworks. Audire’s work is intentionally paced and relational, prioritising containment and informed choice over speed or outcome-driven approaches.
My role is to provide a steady, respectful space where people can be met without pressure to perform, explain, or resolve what they are carrying. Listening is used as a stabilising function to support clarity, dignity, and steadiness rather than as an intervention or assessment process.
You’re in good hands because my professional qualifications include:
- BSc (Hons) in Counselling and Psychotherapy Professional Practice
- Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM)
- BSc (Hons) Bereavement Counselling Professional Practice
- Clinical Supervision for Practitioners
- Talking Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Transactional Analysis (TA101)
- Member of National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society
Clients include:
Services
We offer on site professional services for organisations or face to face and remote services for private clients
ONE TO ONE
Find out moreWhether it is professional or personal we offer a confidential setting for you to freely express and delve into your emotions all grounded in the listening economy framework. Enhance your self-awareness and learn effective coping strategies to tackle challenges, cultivate resilience and confidence to overcome life’s issues whilst navigating complex relationships.
COUPLE OR FAMILY THERAPY
Find out moreIf you’re a couple or family looking to enhance communication, in need of mediation or tools to navigate relational issues related to family, professional or organisational relationships. These sessions are designed to nurture new understanding and relationship fulfilment through listening.
CLINICAL SUPERVISION
Find out moreIdeal for practitioners working directly with families this clinical supervision grounded in the listening economy principles provide essential benefits, foster professional development, reflective practice and relationship building skills. Tools and practices for risk management, emotional support, accountability, well-being, and exploring cultural awareness are included. Elevate your practice with our comprehensive and effective clinical supervision services.
CORPORATE TALKS & WORKSHOPS
Find out moreWe provide a variety of workshops to support professionals in managing and navigating complex relationships with vulnerable groups. All grounded in the listening economy and underpinned by with counselling and psychotherapy practices it’s the ideal place for resilience building and developing relationships.
Speaking Engagements and Team Building Events can be tailored to empower professionals, arming them with vital skills to navigate and thrive in challenging work environments.
Services
We offer on site professional services for organisations or face to face and remote services for private clients
One to One
We offer a confidential setting for you to freely express and delve into your emotions. Enhance your self-awareness and learn effective coping strategies to tackle challenges. Cultivate resilience and confidence to overcome life’s issues.
Couple or Family Therapy
If you’re a couple looking to enhance communication, find tools to navigate relational issues related to family, work-life balance and various marital seasons, these sessions are designed to nurture new understanding and relationship fulfillment.
Clinical Supervision
Clinical supervision provides essential benefits, fostering professional development, reflective practice, risk management, emotional support, accountability, well-being, and exploring cultural awareness. Elevate your practice with our comprehensive and effective clinical supervision services.
Workshop & Corporate Talks
We provide a variety of workshops to support professionals in managing stress, trauma and resilience building. Speaking Engagements and Team Building Events can be tailored to empower professionals, arming them with vital skills to navigate and thrive in challenging work environments.
Our Work
We use ‘The Listening Economy’ Framework to apply our own assessments and we use this in conjunction with a variety of complementary approaches and techniques which include mindfulness and optional integration of Faith and Psychology if desired. We also apply Critical Incident Stress Strategies and Talking Therapy where appropriate.
Approach, Techniques, Areas of Expertise and Specialisation.
Audire Collective works alongside organisations only where doing so improves how individuals and families are met, understood, and supported. The work does not replace statutory, medical, or emergency services.
Our service embraces faith and extends to the ministry. We deliver a caring, principled-based counselling approach that prioritises individuals’ mental health and well-being.
Audire Collective offers listening-led, relational wellbeing support for individuals, families, and practitioners working under sustained pressure. The work is held with care, discretion, and clear ethical boundaries, particularly in justice-adjacent and high-responsibility contexts.
Person-Centered Therapy:
- Focuses on fostering a non-judgmental and empathetic environment.
- Emphasises the client’s self-exploration and self-actualisation.
Transactional Analysis:
- Analysis and improves communication and relational patterns.
- Explores ego states to enhance self-awareness and interpersonal dynamics.
CBT – Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Mindfulness:
- Targets thought patterns affecting behaviour and emotions.
- Integrates mindfulness techniques to enhance awareness and present-focused attention.
Prepare and Enrich Relationship Coaching:
- Focuses on improving communication and understanding in relationships.
- Employs coaching techniques to set and achieve relationship goals.
Trauma-Informed Therapy:
- Addresses the impact of past trauma on mental health.
- Promotes safety, trust, and empowerment in the therapeutic process.
Group Therapy and Facilitation:
- Utilises group dynamics for collective support and insight.
- Facilitates a safe space for sharing and mutual growth.
Integration of Faith and Psychology:
- Blending psychological techniques with Christian principles for holistic healing.
- Exploring how one’s faith intersects with mental, emotional, and relational well-being.
Mindfulness:
- Mindfulness is usually developed through meditation and one’s own mind in the present moment.
- Our practices bring calm to the situation which can also help focus.
Testimonials
Don’t take my word for it, see what my clients have to say…
CLIENT 1
“My heartfelt thanks to you, for walking with me through, what has been, a challenging part of my journey. I’m now ready to move on, alone. You have helped me to make the unbearable, “bearable” and I shall not forget.”
CLIENT 2
“You have been such a Godsend, always so welcoming, compassionate, patient and accommodating. I have been so lucky and so fortunate in finding such a kind caring and professional counsellor to help me through such a turbulent and frightening journey.”
CLIENT 3
“Thank you for listening, understanding, and helping me to accept myself. I hope you always know how important your job is, it is your ministry, and you are very good at it. Thank you”
CLIENT 4
“Sonia, thank you! You have made a huge difference to me and helped me feel empowered instead of simply scarred by my experience, thanks again.”
CLIENT 5
“Sonia, thank you for helping me rise out of my downward spiral and start believing in myself. I will carry your lessons through life.”
Organisations
Make an enquiry for a bespoke workshop or keynote talk. We work with organisations to build connections with families, to build togetherness and co-creation for the best results.
Keynote Talks:
- Listening That Restores – Why being heard is a protective factor against emotional exhaustion.
- When Instinct Is Data – How people and systems override their own warning signals – listening to yourself is key.
- The Cost of Not Being Heard – Emotional fatigue, conflict and breakdown in pressured environments.
- Emotional Safety Isn’t Soft – Why regulation and relational clarity matter in high-stakes systems.
- From Crisis to Clarity – What people actually need after critical incidents and why they need to be heard (CISM-informed, non-clinical framing).
Workshop Titles:
- Restoring the Adult Voice – Transactional Analysis-informed tools for clearer communication (boundaries, roles, ego states – practical, non-jargon).
- Listening Under Pressure – Staying regulated when stakes are high (CISM-informed stabilisation, not therapy).
- When Everything Feels Urgent – Reducing decision fatigue and emotional overload (grounding, prioritisation, reflective pause).
- Creating Emotional Safety in Groups – How teams and families build togetherness.
- Communities – Prevent escalation and burnout.
Clinical Supervision:
Ideal for practitioners working directly with families providing:
- Reflective Practice – A place to pause and reflect on practice.
- Trauma Informed – Building psychologically safe spaces and practices for listening effectively.
- OTL Reviews – Opportunity to Learn and Action Learning Settings.
- Building Skills – Resilience and interpersonal skills for relationship building.
- Co-Creation – Building togetherness and “The Listening Economy” in application.
Organisations
Make an enquiry for a bespoke workshop or keynote talk. We work with organisations to build connections with families, to build togetherness and co-creation for the best results.
Keynote Talks:
- Listening That Restores – Why being heard is a protective factor against emotional exhaustion.
- When Instinct Is Data – How people and systems override their own warning signals – listening to yourself is key.
- The Cost of Not Being Heard – Emotional fatigue, conflict and breakdown in pressured environments.
- Emotional Safety Isn’t Soft – Why regulation and relational clarity matter in high-stakes systems.
- From Crisis to Clarity – What people actually need after critical incidents and why they need to be heard (CISM-informed, non-clinical framing).
Workshop Titles:
- Restoring the Adult Voice – Transactional Analysis-informed tools for clearer communication (boundaries, roles, ego states – practical, non-jargon).
- Listening Under Pressure – Staying regulated when stakes are high (CISM-informed stabilisation, not therapy).
- When Everything Feels Urgent – Reducing decision fatigue and emotional overload (grounding, prioritisation, reflective pause).
- Creating Emotional Safety in Groups – How teams and families build togetherness.
- Communities – Prevent escalation and burnout.
Clinical Supervision:
Ideal for practitioners working directly with families providing:
- Reflective Practice – A place to pause and reflect on practice.
- Trauma Informed – Building psychologically safe spaces and practices for listening effectively.
- OTL Reviews – Opportunity to Learn and Action Learning Settings.
- Building Skills – Resilience and interpersonal skills for relationship building.
- Co-Creation – Building togetherness and “The Listening Economy” in application.
Families & Individuals
Initial One to One Consultation
Start your journey with our initial consultation. Gain insights into your challenges, explore emotions, and build resilience.
Acquire personalised coping strategies and clarity on goals with dedicated coaching support. This session unlocks your potential for lasting success.
Within a confidential space to express and explore your emotions. Gain a deeper understanding of yourself and the challenges you might be facing.
Acquire effective coping strategies for personal positive change.
One to One Package (6 Sessions)
Take a transformative journey with our one-to-one counselling or psychotherapy sessions.
Within a confidential space, express feelings comfortably, gain insight into your emotions, develop reflection skills to deepen your understanding of personal challenges, while acquiring effective coping strategies to enhance resilience, confidence to overcome life’s hurdles.
In coaching, achieve goal clarity for personal or professional aspirations. Stay focused and on track with dedicated support, ensuring consistency and accountability.
Family or Couple Therapy
Welcome to our transformative coaching, encouraging understanding and teamwork for relational fulfilment. Our approach prioritises enhanced communication and deepening mutual understanding.
We encouragingly assist in reinforcing emotional bonds, helping you to create resilient and fulfilling relationships. Our coaching works to equip all parties with conflict resolution skills, encouraging a more agreeable partnership.
Join us on a journey to strengthen connections and build a resilient foundation for a lasting relationship.
Choose between 24 one to one sessions or 15 shared sessions
Families & Individuals
Initial One to One Consultation
Start your journey with our initial consultation. Gain insights into your challenges, explore emotions, and build resilience.
Acquire personalised coping strategies and clarity on goals with dedicated coaching support. This session unlocks your potential for lasting success.
Within a confidential space to express and explore your emotions. Gain a deeper understanding of yourself and the challenges you might be facing.
Acquire effective coping strategies for personal positive change.
One to One Package
Take a transformative journey with our one-to-one counselling or psychotherapy sessions.
Within a confidential space, express feelings comfortably, gain insight into your emotions, develop reflection skills to deepen your understanding of personal challenges, while acquiring effective coping strategies to enhance resilience, confidence to overcome life’s hurdles.
In coaching, achieve goal clarity for personal or professional aspirations. Stay focused and on track with dedicated support, ensuring consistency and accountability.
Family or Couple Therapy
Welcome to our transformative coaching, encouraging understanding and teamwork for relational fulfilment. Our approach prioritises enhanced communication and deepening mutual understanding.
We encouragingly assist in reinforcing emotional bonds, helping you to create resilient and fulfilling relationships. Our coaching works to equip all parties with conflict resolution skills, encouraging a more agreeable partnership.
Join us on a journey to strengthen connections and build a resilient foundation for a lasting relationship.
Choose between 24 one to one sessions or 15 shared sessions
Opening Times
There may be increased availability for online sessions however it is acknowledged that in person appointments may also be preferable to some.
A limited amount of in person appointments are therefore available and set out as below, they should be pre-booked and will incur an additional fee.
MONDAY
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TUESDAY
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WEDNESDAY
12:00 PM – 7:00 PM
THURSDAY
12:00 PM – 7:00 PM
FRIDAY
O N L I N E O N L Y
SATURDAY
8:00 AM – 11:30 AM
SUNDAY
C L O S E D
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+44 (0) 7835 173 656
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