Hendrina Sterling Rodriguez
Practical counselling for day-to-day coping
About Hendrina
Hendrina Sterling Rodriguez greets people in English and Spanish and focuses on clear, practical support. She is a counsellor and psychotherapist with ten years of experience working in the NHS and independent practice. Hendrina aims to help people reduce overwhelm and make manageable changes in daily life.
Her work is counselling-led and present-focused. Sessions tend to be skills-based, solution-focused, and aimed at immediate problems like stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and relationship difficulties.
Background and approach
She uses straightforward talk, goal-setting, and cognitive strategies to help people cope with life changes and pressures. Hendrina also supports people dealing with trauma and abuse, grief, parenting challenges, ADHD, compassion fatigue and career concerns. She pays attention to attachment, abandonment, commitment and communication issues that affect how people relate to others.
She helps clients facing divorce, infidelity, isolation, guilt and shame to clarify next steps and build day-to-day coping skills. Her training and background include work within the NHS alongside independent practice. Her listed credential is NCPS.
Hendrina describes a clear boundary around not offering intensive long-term trauma processing or deep analytic work within the online format; instead she focuses on shorter-term, structured therapy and coaching-style support. People who want practical strategies, present-focused counselling, and a collaborative approach may find her way of working helpful.
She guides clients toward clearer goals, fewer overwhelming moments, and steadier coping in ordinary life.
What Hendrina works with
How Hendrina works
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Sessions & fees
How Hendrina blends therapy approaches online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, and then commit to actions that reflect their values. It is useful for anxiety, low mood and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviours to reduce distress and improve daily coping. It is commonly used for anxiety, depression and stress management.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Hendrina will talk with clients about their goals, preferences and what feels manageable. She uses a collaborative, counselling-led process to test methods and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different needs and routines. Video calls allow a face-to-face conversation; phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging suit short check-ins, ongoing coaching-style support or people who communicate better in writing. These options make therapy more flexible for work, parenting and travel commitments, while allowing the therapist to use ACT and CBT techniques in a variety of formats.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
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-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour 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
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English, Spanish
