Sara Paolini
Calm, practical counselling for everyday struggles
About Sara
Sara Paolini offers practical, approachable support for people facing worry and change. She creates a calm place to talk through feelings, whether someone is coping with anxiety, low mood, or uncertainty about next steps. Sara uses straightforward language and steady listening to help people feel understood and begin to make small changes.
Sara has five years' experience and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
Background and approach
She sees people remotely and has experience with online working as well as face-to-face practice. Sessions aim to help people manage stress, understand patterns, and build coping skills that fit day-to-day life. In appointments Sara helps people address a wide range of difficulties.
These include depression, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, eating concerns, anger, and career stress. She also supports people with trauma and abuse, dissociation, attachment or abandonment worries, and challenges linked to chronic illness or caregiving strain. Sara works with concerns around identity and LGBT issues, body image and codependency.
She also helps people navigate separation, family of origin problems, and coping after disaster. The focus is on clear steps clients can take between sessions to feel steadier. Sara offers sessions in English and welcomes international clients.
Practical details such as format and cost vary by location and are handled through the service booking process. To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session according to availability.
What Sara works with
Sessions & fees
How Sara adapts therapy approaches for online sessions
Sara uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that help people understand and change patterns in their life. One approach focuses on recognising unhelpful patterns and testing small behavioural changes to see what helps with mood and stress. This can be useful for anxiety, low mood, and coping with life transitions.A second approach emphasises exploring early relationships and attachment patterns to see how they affect current relationships and feelings of abandonment. This work helps people understand recurring problems and practise different ways of relating to others.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Sara discusses options with each person and adjusts methods to match their goals, needs and preferences. Over time she checks in and changes direction when something is not working well for the client.
Online therapy offers practical benefits: video calls let people use visual cues and a fuller conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging suit short check-ins or someone who prefers writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family or travel commitments and to continue work with a therapist when relocating.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| 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
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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
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
