About Maria
Maria Sardina is a counsellor and hypnotherapist who helps people dealing with stress, anxiety and major life changes. She works with concerns such as grief, sleep problems, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, trauma and eating difficulties. Maria uses clear, practical steps and a calm manner so conversations feel straightforward and focused.
Maria has around 10 years of professional experience and holds the NCPS credential. She offers both short and longer term support and adapts her approach to the person in front of her.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative - she listens first, then suggests ways forward that fit each person’s goals. Her practice mixes talking therapy with coaching and hypnotherapy. That combination is chosen to help people shift unhelpful thoughts, learn new coping skills, and tackle habits or behaviours that get in the way of daily life.
Maria also draws on mindfulness and Jungian ideas when these suit the client. She has a background working with health‑related issues and several years of hospital work supporting people adjusting to diagnoses, chronic illness and cancer. That experience informs how she helps people live with ongoing health worries, long Covid symptoms and related stress.
Sessions can focus on practical coping strategies, exploring past patterns that keep repeating, or short coaching-style plans to reach a specific goal. Maria offers a supportive space to work through painful experiences and to build clearer direction for the future.
Approaches you can use online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and building a respectful working relationship where the client leads the pace and topics. It can help people feel heard and clearer about what they want to change.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at connections between thoughts, feelings and actions and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety and manage mood. It is useful for stress, sleep problems, worry and adjusting to life changes.
Hypnotherapy uses guided relaxation and imagery to access patterns that support habit change or reduce strong emotional reactions. It can be paired with talking therapy when someone wants to address behaviours or recurring fears.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and together you will choose what fits your needs, goals and preferences. That decision is revisited as therapy progresses so methods can change if something else would help more.
Online sessions are offered by registered or accredited professionals and include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for full conversations and visual cues, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, family and travel.
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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 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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