Sara Paolini, BACP

Sara Paolini is an enthusiastic Transactional Analysis counsellor who offers both remote and face-to-face work. She brings a relational, exploratory style to sessions and is a registered MBACP member - MBACP indicates membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She is also connected with professional bodies referenced in her original practice background and draws on a range of evidence-based therapeutic techniques to support clients.

Sara creates a calm, reflective environment where people can examine thoughts, feelings and patterns that affect day-to-day life. With five years of experience, she works with those facing anxiety, depression, dissociation, self-harming patterns and trauma, among other concerns. She is particularly interested in supporting people through difficult life changes, relationship and family issues, grief and intimacy-related challenges, and offers help with problems such as attachment and abandonment, body image and caregiver stress. Sara welcomes clients who prefer online sessions as well as those seeking in-person meetings in the United Kingdom, and she accepts international clients for remote work.

Transactional Analysis and Remote Therapeutic Support

Sara uses Transactional Analysis to explore how patterns of communication and early life experiences shape current relationships and self-understanding. This approach helps clients identify repeated roles and interactions, develop clearer self-awareness, and make deliberate changes in how they relate to others.

Alongside Transactional Analysis, she applies a range of evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to presenting concerns such as anxiety, low mood and trauma-related symptoms. These practical methods focus on building coping skills, grounding strategies for dissociation and exploring patterns that contribute to self-harming behaviours, allowing work to be both reflective and action-oriented.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic journey and Sara treats this as a collaborative process. She will work with each person to choose techniques that fit their needs, goals and preferences, adapting methods as progress unfolds.

Online therapy with licensed professionals offers flexibility - sessions can occur by video call or phone, or through live chat and text-based messaging. Remote work makes it easier to fit therapy into busy lives, to access support from different locations, and to continue care when in-person meetings are not possible.