About Sara
Sara Paolini offers calm, straightforward support for people feeling overwhelmed. She speaks plainly and listens closely to what matters most to each person. Sara aims to help clients reduce anxiety, manage low mood, and find steadier ways of coping with life changes.
Sara uses Transactional Analysis as a central framework to understand how people relate to themselves and others. She works with issues such as stress, self‑esteem, grief, trauma and abuse, and intimacy concerns.
How Sara works
She also helps with eating difficulties, anger, career worries and relationship problems. Her practice includes attention to attachment and abandonment experiences, body image, codependency and caregiver stress. She supports people dealing with chronic pain, illness or disability and those navigating separation or domestic violence.
Dissociation and dependent personality patterns are additional areas she addresses. Sara has five years' experience and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She works remotely as well as face to face, and can meet people by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging.
Sessions are conversational and rooted in real situations. She helps people notice unhelpful patterns, try new responses and build small, useful changes into daily life. Practical steps and steady reflection are both part of the work she offers.
What Sara works with
The areas below are the ones Sara selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches work online
Sara commonly uses Transactional Analysis to help people notice how they relate to themselves and others. This approach looks at patterns of thinking and behaviour that repeat, and it helps create clearer ways of responding to stress and relationship difficulties.She also draws on evidence based techniques that focus on practical coping skills for anxiety, low mood and trauma responses. These techniques offer straightforward tools for grounding, managing emotions and changing unhelpful reactions in daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sara collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals and preferences. Together they review what helps and adjust the plan as the work progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text based messaging, giving flexibility for different situations. Video calls are useful when visual contact helps the conversation. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and suit those who prefer not to be on camera. Live chat or text based messaging can fit short check ins, written reflection or people with busy schedules. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family and travel commitments.
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