Maria Sardina
Integrative counsellor blending hypnotherapy and coaching
About Maria
Maria Sardina helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, sleep problems and low mood. She supports those dealing with trauma, eating or parenting concerns, anger, self-esteem struggles, career questions and life changes. Maria also works with people experiencing compassion fatigue, ADHD and intimacy-related issues.
Maria trained as an integrative counsellor, hypnotherapist and life coach and holds the NCPS credential. She brings ten years of professional practice to her work and uses a mix of approaches so each plan fits the person.
Background and approach
Sessions can be short term or longer, depending on what someone needs. Her style is warm and collaborative. She creates space to talk through hard moments and to set realistic goals.
Hypnotherapy and coaching are offered alongside talking therapies when those methods suit the person’s aims. Maria has experience supporting people with health-related worries, including adjustment to chronic illness and cancer, and practical coping when uncertainty is part of life. That background informs how she helps clients manage anxiety about health and ongoing symptoms.
She adapts her approach to each person and works with them to design a clear plan. Workshops and group sessions are also part of her work for those who prefer that format. Sessions are offered in English and are available to people in the United Kingdom and internationally.
To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to the therapist’s availability. Subscriptions are used for sessions and can be cancelled at any time.
What Maria works with
How Maria works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches for online sessions
Maria uses Client-Centred Therapy to create a respectful, accepting space where the person leads the pace and topics. This approach helps people who want to talk things through and find direction by being heard and understood.She also integrates Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to help spot patterns of thinking that fuel anxiety, low mood or sleep problems. CBT offers practical tools and simple exercises people can use between sessions to notice thoughts and change behaviours.
Finding the right blend of approaches is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, then adapt methods as progress is made. That collaborative planning helps make sessions relevant and focused.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people work face to face from wherever they are, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a shorter check-in, live chat suits brief conversations and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make therapy easier to fit around work, caring commitments and daily life.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
