About Hendrina
Hendrina Sterling Rodriguez is a bilingual counsellor who helps people manage anxiety, stress and life changes. She works in English and Spanish and brings ten years of experience in both NHS and personal settings. She aims to offer clear, practical support so clients feel less overwhelmed and more able to cope day to day.
Her approach is focused and collaborative. Sessions tend to be present-focused and skills-based, with practical steps clients can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Hendrina draws on cognitive behavioural ideas alongside client-centred listening to help people spot patterns and try new ways of responding. She offers support for relationship difficulties, low self-esteem, grief, parenting strain, workplace burnout and LGBT-related concerns. Trauma and abuse are also within her scope, though she does not provide long-term analytic or high-intensity trauma processing in this setting.
That boundary is set so she can concentrate on steady, goal-oriented counselling here. Hendrina uses techniques from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy when helpful, aiming to pair skills practice with gentle exploration of values and attachment patterns. Her sessions are designed to help people reduce overwhelm and make small, sustainable changes.
Practicalities are straightforward: sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or messaging, and international clients may be supported. Costs vary by location and are handled via a cancellable subscription model. To begin, a short matching questionnaire and scheduling step are used.
How Hendrina uses different approaches in online counselling
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages noticing difficult thoughts and choosing actions that match personal values. It can help when anxiety or uncertainty gets in the way of everyday living. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings and actions and offers practical exercises to reduce worry and unhelpful habits. It is often useful for anxiety and stress. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationship patterns shape current connections and communication, helping people understand and change repeating responses.Choosing an approach is a collaboration. Hendrina will discuss what matters to you, your goals and how you like to work. Together you can try one approach or combine methods, checking in regularly to see what helps and what to adjust.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions work well if bandwidth is limited or when you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework review, or when you need writing to sort thoughts. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel while keeping the therapeutic focus.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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