About Hendrina
Hendrina Sterling Rodriguez offers short-term, practical counselling for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship strain, or life changes. She speaks English and Spanish and aims to help clients clarify goals, learn skills, and feel more able to cope day to day. Hendrina has ten years' experience working across the NHS and independent practice.
She describes her work as counselling-led and present-focused, using practical strategies rather than long-term analytic therapy.
Background and approach
That means sessions often centre on clear steps and skills clients can use between meetings. Her approach draws on cognitive behavioural techniques for spotting unhelpful thoughts and changing patterns. She also uses client-centred listening to help people feel heard, and attachment-informed ideas when relationship patterns matter.
These methods are aimed at easing anxiety, building self-esteem, and improving communication. On this platform Hendrina does not offer intensive psychodynamic therapy or lengthy trauma processing. Instead she focuses on supportive talk therapy, skills-based work, and solution-focused planning.
This boundary helps her provide consistent, structured support that fits shorter-term online formats. She has worked with a wide range of concerns including stress, depression, grief, parenting strain, ADHD-related challenges, and difficulties around intimacy and commitment. Her style is collaborative and respectful, helping people set realistic goals and try small changes that add up over time.
To begin clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions. Hendrina's practice aims to help people gain clarity and practical tools for managing everyday distress.
How her approaches work online
Hendrina uses cognitive behavioural therapy and client-centred methods to help people make practical changes. CBT focuses on noticing thoughts and behaviours that keep problems going and testing small changes that can reduce anxiety or low mood. Client-centred work means the therapist listens without judgement and follows the client's pace, which helps people feel understood before trying new strategies.She also draws on attachment-based ideas when relationship patterns are important. That approach looks at how past close relationships shape current reactions and helps people try different ways of connecting or communicating when old patterns no longer serve them.
Finding the right approach is a joint process. Hendrina discusses goals and preferences with each person and adapts methods to fit their needs. That way clients try tools that match their situation rather than one fixed style.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for flexible contact. Video is useful for deeper conversations and working through exercises; phone calls can suit shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is lower. Live chat and messaging let clients check in between sessions or use brief coaching-style support. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family, or travel while keeping a steady therapeutic rhythm.
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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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