Maria Sardina, NCPS

Maria Sardina is an integrative counsellor, hypnotherapist and life coach with ten years of professional experience. She supports people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, sleep problems and relationship or intimacy-related concerns. Maria also helps with practical life issues such as career questions, parenting strains, compassion fatigue and living with long-term health conditions. She works in English and welcomes international clients from the United Kingdom base.

Maria uses a collaborative, non-judgemental style in sessions. She listens first, then helps people identify small, doable steps. That might include coaching-style goal setting, guided hypnotherapy, or talking therapies that focus on everyday thoughts and habits. Sessions are tailored to what each person wants to address.

Her work draws on client-centred ways of working alongside cognitive behavioural ideas and mindfulness practices. She also uses elements of Jungian thinking and hypnotherapy when they suit a person’s aims. Maria emphasises helping people change unhelpful patterns and build more workable routines in daily life.

Before moving into private practice Maria spent time supporting people with health-related issues, including several years in a hospital setting. That background informs her approach to adjustment, chronic illness and recovery from trauma or loss. She offers both short-term and longer-term support depending on the individual’s needs.

People who choose to work with Maria can expect a personalised plan and regular review of progress. She runs one-to-one consultations and group workshops and can include coaching tools when useful. To begin, clients follow the site’s matching process and then arrange sessions to suit their circumstances.

Approaches that shape online work

Maria draws on client-centred work and cognitive behavioural ideas to help people change thoughts and everyday habits. Client-centred therapy focuses on understanding each person’s experience and building a respectful, collaborative relationship that supports self-directed change. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thinking and develop practical strategies and routines to manage mood, anxiety and sleep problems.

She also offers hypnotherapy as a tool for relaxation and for addressing habits or intrusive patterns when that fits a person’s goals. Hypnotherapy sessions use guided relaxation and imagery to support intention setting and behaviour change, often alongside talking-based methods.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t helped before, and then agree a mix of methods that feels right. That collaborative process is reviewed regularly so the plan can be adjusted as progress is made.

The original biography does not list which specific session formats are offered online, so please confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let someone work with a therapist across regions, which suits people managing relocation or complex schedules.