About Maria

I have overcome 25 years of debilitating chronic pain (RSI and knee pain amongst other diagnoses). Having juggled a career, chronic pain, parental abandonment, anxiety, loss and bring up a family, I understand how challenging life can be. Often your own wellbeing can be ignored until your body and/or mind forces you to stop and listen. I’ve learnt (perhaps the hard way) that we need to face our fears, listen to our emotions, set boundaries, ignore our negative thoughts and keep our focus on what we want to get out of life.

I have been empowering people to face their own challenges since 2011, first as a Hypnotherapist and Mindfulness practitioner and after finding my own cure for chronic pain, I trained to help others do the same with SIRPA. I have an MSc in Health Psychology, and use other tools such as NLP, EFT, ACT and CBT.

We are affected by what life has thrown at us (e.g. Adverse childhood experiences, stress, trauma, bereavement) and our mind-body does indeed keep the score. However, our mind-body has an innate intelligence to discharge stress, heal, and return to homeostasis. Let me help you to guide this intelligence, regulate your emotions; and return to being free to live your life again.

SIRPA™ (Stress Illness Recovery Practitioners’ Association) was developed in 2010 by UK Chartered Physiotherapist, Georgie Oldfield. Georgie had come across the pioneering work of John E Sarno MD in early 2007 after spending years trying to answer all the inconsistencies she was regularly noticing between the symptoms her patients presented with and their diagnoses. SIRPA trains professionals in understanding mindbody conditions, teaching up to date pain neuroscience and SIRPA’s approach to resolving chronic symptoms.