About Sara
Sara Paolini is a counsellor who offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed. She meets clients online and in person and aims to create a steady space where worries can be talked through. Sara holds BACP, which means she is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
She focuses on everyday pressures like stress, anxiety and low self esteem. She also helps with depression, grief, and relationship and family problems.
Background and approach
Clients bring issues such as trauma, dissociation, self-harming patterns, eating concerns and anger, and she offers steady, non-judgemental time to talk about these. Sara uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and transactional analysis ideas to help people understand patterns in their feelings and relationships.
She works with clients to spot recurring dynamics - for example attachment or abandonment patterns - and to try different ways of responding. Sessions aim to be clear and practical, with steps people can try between meetings. She has five years' experience and practises in the United Kingdom.
Sessions are available using video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, and she also meets face-to-face. Sara accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English. To begin, someone completes a short matching questionnaire and arranges a time that suits them.
The process is straightforward and focuses on finding a good fit between the person and the counsellor.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Two helpful ways Sara uses are transactional analysis ideas and broader evidence-based techniques. Transactional analysis helps people see repeated patterns in how they relate to others and to themselves. It can make sense of feelings like abandonment or constant self‑criticism and point to different ways of responding. Evidence-based approaches focus on practical steps and skills - for example pacing activities, noticing unhelpful thoughts, and practising new behaviour to reduce anxiety and lift mood.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences, try an approach for a few sessions and adapt as needed. Together you decide what feels useful and what to try next, so the work fits the person rather than a fixed method.
Online work uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to make counselling more flexible. Video gives face-to-face contact when needed, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging suits short check-ins or writing things down between sessions. These options help people fit therapy around work, caring duties and different time zones.
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What this therapist works with
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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
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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