In your life and work, imagine feeling more
A 5-part framework for lasting individual and organisational change.
Individual and corporate programs available
Individually
- Burnout and chronic exhaustion
- Identity tied to achievement
- Workaholism and the inability to rest
- Anxiety, pressure and emotional shutdown
- Disconnection from yourself and your life
- Perfectionism, people-pleasing and the constant need to prove
Individually
- Leadership teams operating under constant pressure
- High performers burning out quietly
- Cultures built around endurance rather than sustainability
- Decision-making affected by chronic stress
- Retention problems rooted in burnout and depletion
- Organisations seeking sustainable high performance
S
Sense
Learning to read what your body is already telling you, before it escalates.
P
Pattern
Recognising the conditioned responses that run the show under pressure.
I
Integrate
Bringing soma and psyche back into dialogue, so change happens where it sticks.
R
Regulate
Building a nervous system with real range, able to mobilise and recover.
A
Anchor
Embedding the work into how you live, lead and operate so it lasts.
The work changes how you operate under pressure.
Clearer decisions
You make better decisions because you are no longer reacting from stress.
Sustainable energy
You stop running on adrenaline and start operating from genuine capacity.
Better relationships
You show up with more presence and less performance.
More grounded leadership
You lead from a regulated place rather than a pressured one.
A stronger connection to yourself
You feel more connected to your life and to who you actually are.
Maria brings together two careers that most people keep separate. After ten years as a psychotherapist, working across clinical settings in the UK and private practice in Greece and Cyprus, she moved into global financial services and spent the next decade in senior leadership roles across international markets.
That dual lens is the foundation of SPIRA. She understands what it costs to perform at the highest level, because she has done it. And she understands what it does to the nervous system, because she spent years helping people navigate exactly that.
Education
BSc Psychology
MSc Counselling
Professional Training
CBT · Mindfulness-Based Approaches · Addiction Counselling · Somatic Experiencing (in training)
Experience
10 years clinical psychotherapy practice 10+ years senior leadership, global financial services
Ready to perform
without the cost?
Whether you are an individual looking for a different way to operate, or an organisation
ready to invest in your people, the first step is a conversation.