✦About Maria
Hi — I’m Maria.
Psychotherapist · Hypnotherapist · Intuitive Life Coach
From the outside, your life might look pretty good. And a lot of it probably is. But that doesn’t mean you feel like yourself inside it.
With yourself — or with the people you love, or the work you’ve built — something can still feel off. Like there’s an emptiness you can’t quite put your finger on.
I can see what’s missing before you’ve finished telling me the story.
I feel what your heart is already saying — and your mind won’t let you see.
This is what people come to me for. I feel energy. Not your words, not the version you’ve rehearsed — the thing sitting underneath both. The one your heart’s been saying for years while your mind talks over the top of it.
It’s a gift. I’ve had it my whole life, and I’ve worked with it for thirty years alongside training in psychotherapy, hypnotherapy and life coaching. That combination is the whole point. The way I receive it is intuitive. What I do with it is grounded — I give it back to you in plain language you can actually use.
Because seeing it isn’t the work. Understanding it is. I teach you how to listen to what you’re feeling — not just what you’re thinking, because what you’re thinking isn’t always right.
And what changes is usually the thing quietly running your relationships, your self-trust, your career.
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Come as you are. We’ll simply talk and see what feels right for you.
✦My story
I grew up reading people before I knew what that meant.
My mum owned a hairdressing salon. From the time I was small, I lived inside women’s stories — sitting in the corner, listening, watching. I could feel what someone was carrying before they’d said a word. I heard what they weren’t saying just as clearly as what they were.
I didn’t have a name for it. I honestly thought everyone could do it.
Other people named it long before I did. How did you know that? You’ve just blown my mind. Maria, that’s a gift. I heard it enough times, from enough people who had no reason to flatter me, that I couldn’t keep calling it a coincidence.
The one that stayed with me came from a monk at Mount Athos — who was also a trained psychologist. Of all the people who could have named it, it was the one man holding both halves at once. He told me I was a conduit. That I could guide people towards something without ever having to be religious about it. I believe in God, but my work has never been about telling someone what to believe. I knew exactly what he meant, and it was the first time anyone had given what I could feel a shape.
My training didn’t begin in a classroom. It began in my mother’s salon.
So, I went and got trained. Psychotherapy, hypnotherapy and life coaching at the Academy of Hypnotic Science — not to replace what I already had, but to learn how to hold it properly. Because a gift with no training behind it is just intuition you spring on people. The training taught me how to read someone and then hand it back in a way they can use.
I’m Greek, and I’ve worked with women here and in Europe. I know how culture, family expectations and the stories we absorb before we’re old enough to question them shape how a woman sees herself.
That’s why I see the whole woman, not just the thing she came in with. Together we untangle what she’s absorbed from everyone else, so she can hear her own needs again and make choices that actually feel like hers.
I was doing well in corporate. Making money, kicking goals, and completely empty. I was good at it — but only because I could read what people needed. I just didn’t know that’s what I was doing yet. Then I met Jackie, who told me about the Academy of Hypnotic Science. I went to an open day and for the first time, something felt like me. I trained there in psychotherapy, hypnotherapy and life coaching, and I never went back.
Through my thirties and forties I balanced business, motherhood, relationships, and the particular exhaustion of being needed by everyone while leaving very little for myself. I’ve lived the same overwhelm my clients bring into the room. I don’t only understand it because I’ve studied it — I understand it because I lived it.
Three ways of working, one purpose: helping you understand yourself, so you can heal yourself. I bring psychotherapy, hypnotherapy and life coaching together to help you see what’s going on beneath what you’re feeling — the beliefs, patterns and experiences that may still be shaping you. And as things become clearer, something changes. You stop judging yourself for how you got here. You start understanding, and choosing what’s actually true for you.
Before you arrive, I get quiet.
It’s a practice I’ve kept for years. I meditate, let go of my day. I don’t want my story getting in the way of yours. Whether we’re sitting in the same room or meeting online, that part doesn’t change. I connect through what you say, what you don’t say and what I feel underneath it.
So, by the time we begin I’m listening to more than your words.
For that time, my attention is entirely with you.
✦How I work
Three ways of working. One gift running through all of them.
Counselling, hypnotherapy, coaching — underneath, I’m doing the same thing in all three. I’m connecting to what’s really going on. It doesn’t switch off when we change tools.
What changes is which tool I reach for once I can see what’s there.
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Psychotherapy
Understanding what’s happening
We slow it right down and look at what’s actually running underneath the feelings, the reactions, the patterns that keep coming back. I tell you what I’m seeing. Then we make sense of why it affects you so hard — without you having to judge yourself for it, or feel like you should’ve worked it out already.
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Hypnotherapy
Where the belief was formed
I’m a conduit in here too. I can see where you could go — but if you’re afraid, we don’t push. We go back to where the emotion got stuck, usually to a much younger part of you, and we let it move. That’s the inner child work, and it’s the bit talking alone can’t reach.
Then we come up and talk about it properly, awake, so you understand what just happened. Feeling it and understanding it are two different things. You need both.
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Intuitive Life Coaching
Choosing differently
Seeing it clearly is the shift. This is what comes after — where you start choosing differently. The boundaries, the decisions, the way you show up in your relationships and your work. Not a textbook version of your life. Yours.
You don’t have to know which one you need. That’s my work. You just tell me what’s been happening.
✦What my clients say
Don’t take my word for it.
The moment I met Maria I felt safe and validated.
Warm, nurturing, and easy to talk to. In her presence you feel completely safe, seen, and at ease – like connecting with a trusted friend.Emma K. · Google review
Her approach combines intuition with therapy in a way I’ve never experienced. Her instinct was spot on.Bonnie M. · Google review
I felt seen and understood on a deep level. I walked out feeling refreshed, lighter, and more at peace than I had in a long time.Patricia S. · Google review
✦The real Maria
What it feels like to sit opposite me.
You don’t have to edit yourself with me. Bring the uncertainty, the messy parts and the things you haven’t found the words for yet.
I’m not listening so I can reply. I’m listening for the thing you can’t see yet.
And honestly? It’s usually not just in what you’re saying. It’s in what happens while you’re saying it — the pause, the expression on your face, the bit you almost move past.
You tell me your story, and while you’re telling it, I’m connecting to what’s underneath it — the story you’ve been telling yourself. The one that may have had you overwhelmed, stuck or frustrated for longer than you realise.
Then I reflect it back.
Sometimes we find where that story began. Sometimes it explains why the relationship you have with yourself isn’t growing. Why the same kind of person keeps showing up in a different body. Or why you can’t see the gifts in yourself that I can see so clearly.
I’m warm, but I’m also honest. If I notice something that’s keeping you stuck, I’ll help you see it — without judgement.
Because once you can see something clearly, you have a choice.
That’s really what I’m teaching you.
✦How you got here
A feeling
Comes, and goes — if you know what to do with it.
A thought
What a feeling becomes when you don’t.
A belief
What a thought becomes when you keep having it.
And eventually, that belief starts shaping what you expect from yourself, your relationships and your life.
So we work backwards. We find the belief, understand where it came from, and work with the feeling underneath it.
And when you’re no longer afraid of what you feel, it doesn’t get to make every decision for you.
Healing doesn’t always have to be long and heavy. Sometimes the biggest shift comes from finally seeing the pattern for what it is — clearly, and without judging yourself for having it.
Then you get to decide what you want to do differently.
I listen for the gap
What you say matters. So does what happens while you’re saying it. The answer is often somewhere between the two.
I’ll reflect it back
You tell me your story. I connect to what’s underneath it and help you see the part that’s harder to notice when you’re living inside it.
Your journey, not my theory
I’m not running you through a model. I’m helping you understand your own life, your patterns and what feels true for you.
No judgement
You can say the thing you’re worried is too much, too messy, or something you should have worked out by now.
Honest conversations
I’ll meet you with warmth and still tell you when I notice something that may be keeping you stuck.
Room for laughter
The work can be deep without every moment being heavy. Sometimes you need the laugh too.
✦Is this for you?
What you’ll experience sitting with me.
You want to feel understood, not analysed.
You want something to finally make sense — and to leave with a clearer idea of what to do next.
You’re not here to spend session after session retelling the same story. You know the story.
You’re ready to understand why it still has such a hold on you — and what you want to do differently now.
You leave knowing yourself a little better, trusting yourself a little more, and feeling clearer about what comes next.
✦Your next step
You don’t have to know exactly where to begin.
Tell me what’s been happening and we’ll talk it through. Not ready to talk yet? Start with one of my free resources.
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Let’s Talk
Free 20-minute call
You don’t need to know what kind of support you need. Come as you are, tell me what’s been going on, and we’ll see what feels right.
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Free Card Reading
A moment of intuitive reflection
Choose the theme you’re drawn to, pick three cards, and get a personalised reading on what might be asking for your attention.
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Free Reflections
Understand your patterns
Choose The Self-Worth Reflection or The Relationship Patterns Reflection, and start noticing what’s shaping how you feel, respond and connect.
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