Hendrina Sterling Rodriguez, NCPS
Practical, present-focused counselling with a somatic lens
About Hendrina
Hendrina Sterling Rodriguez is a bilingual counsellor practising in the United Kingdom. She has ten years of experience and offers practical, present-focused support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief or life changes. She uses clear tools to help people manage day-to-day challenges and to improve communication and self‑esteem.
Her work draws on somatic ideas, acceptance and commitment techniques, attachment-focused thinking and cognitive behavioural tools. Sessions tend to be skills-based and collaborative.
Background and approach
Hendrina helps people identify small, manageable steps that fit into busy lives rather than committing to open-ended therapy. She brings experience from both NHS settings and independent practice into her online work. This background shapes a straightforward, goal-oriented style that aims to reduce overwhelm and build coping skills.
Hendrina also supports people dealing with trauma, parenting strain, career stress, LGBT concerns and compassion fatigue. Hendrina holds the NCPS credential. She offers therapy in English and Spanish and accepts international clients.
Her practice uses a subscription model for sessions that can be cancelled at any time. For people new to therapy, she recommends starting with a short matching questionnaire and an initial session to see how the approach feels. The focus is on practical help now, and on finding realistic changes that make daily life easier.
How Hendrina blends approaches for online work
Somatic ideas focus on noticing bodily sensations and how the body responds to stress; this can help people manage anxiety, grief and overwhelming feelings by bringing attention to what is happening in the body. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, encourages noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them while clarifying personal values to guide small changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how past relationship patterns affect current interactions and helps people build clearer, more supported ways of relating.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Hendrina approaches therapy collaboratively and will help clients try out different techniques to find what fits their goals and preferences. The aim is to build practical skills together and adjust plans if something does not feel helpful.
Online sessions offer flexibility for people with busy schedules or who live far from in-person services. Video calls support face-to-face conversation, phone sessions suit those who prefer voice only, and live chat or text-based messaging can work for brief check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and to use techniques in everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- 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