About Maria
Maria Sardina supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, grief and depression. She also helps with sleeping problems, intimacy and relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, eating difficulties, anger and low self-esteem. Maria works with career worries, coping with life changes, parenting strain and compassion fatigue, and can offer guidance around ADHD and related challenges.
Maria is a counsellor and hypnotherapist with a decade of experience. She uses a collaborative, non-judgemental style and aims to create a calm space for people to talk through what matters to them.
How Maria works
Sessions can be short term or longer, depending on the person and their goals. Maria blends several therapeutic approaches rather than using a single method. She draws on client-centred ways of working, cognitive behavioural techniques, hypnotherapy, Jungian ideas and mindfulness practices to match the work to the person.
She tailors each plan so it fits the individual rather than following a fixed template. Her background includes substantial work with health-related issues, including experience in hospital settings and supporting people adjusting to illness. This has informed her practice when helping people manage chronic conditions and related anxiety.
Maria also offers coaching-style support and group workshops alongside one-to-one sessions. New clients start with a short assessment so they and Maria can agree on aims and the best route forward. The focus is practical change, clearer thinking and steadier coping day to day.
Maria lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Maria works with
The areas below are the ones Maria selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
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 counseling
- 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
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches that suit online working
Maria commonly uses Client-Centred Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) in online sessions. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening closely and helping the person find their own solutions, which can be especially useful for building self-understanding and emotional resilience. CBT looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and offers practical skills to manage anxiety, low mood and unhelpful habits.She also uses hypnotherapy where appropriate, a technique that guides people into a relaxed state to work on specific goals such as changing habits or reducing stress. Hypnotherapy online can support practical changes and complement talking therapies when someone wants focused behaviour change.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively to understand needs, goals and preferences, then suggests methods to try and adapts them over time. This helps ensure the work feels relevant and useful to the person.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls allow visual connection for depth work, phone sessions can be useful for quicker check-ins or when bandwidth is low, and messaging or chat offers a flexible way to keep momentum between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and other commitments while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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