Maria Afentakis

Author, Neuroscientist and Coach

Maria, “The Spiritualist” is a gifted third-generation spiritual psychic, clairvoyant, intuitive reader, astrologist, angelic Reiki practitioner, animal Reiki practitioner, crystal healer, channel, public speaker, teacher, neuroscientist, mental health first aider, neuroscience coach, and author. Maria offers spiritual guidance and global remote viewing techniques to provide advice and comfort in any area of your life, including relationships, career, health, and emotional well-being. Maria offers soul alignment sessions and counselling sessions to help you find your true path in life and is the founder of Nefertari Retreats, offering premium personalized retreats to Egypt and the UK to connect divine feminine and divine masculine energies, bringing peace, balance, and love to create sacred union within oneself. Maria offers group and individual sessions on brain and mindfulness techniques and is a keynote speaker at the Mind, Body and Soul Experience at Alexandra Palace. She obtained a CEO Star Award for providing mindfulness sessions to the company she previously worked at, offering peace and balance for her colleagues during a very stressful period at work.

Maria has been blessed with spiritual gifts and, as a scientist, she aims to bridge the gap between science and spirituality by educating others on gaining the scientific background to understand how spiritual practices work. She is the author of The Spiritual Scientist – Bridging the Gap Between Science and Spirituality and has featured in many media outlets, including BBC Bristol Radio, Spirit and Destiny Magazine, Natural Health Magazine, Health and Well-being Magazine, Hello Magazine, Metro, and The New York Times. She is currently writing her second book, The Spiritual Scientist – Bridging the Gap Between the Divine Feminine and Divine Masculine to Create Sacred Union.

The Scientist

Maria is a scientist, with degrees in Biochemistry and Neuroscience from the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, London. She has worked in prestigious scientific institutes throughout her scientific career, including the London School of Pharmacy, Imperial College, and The Royal Marsden Hospital, and is affiliated with King’s College University, London. She has been an author in many scientific publications, including a first-author paper, which is recognition for her scientific research.

Maria has taught many medical doctors and students scientific concepts in biology, physics, and chemistry. She has supervised them, helping them pass examinations and obtain MDs and PhDs. She contributed to a variety of scientific research papers in breast cancer research while working at The Royal Marsden Hospital, which are listed below:

Afentakis M, et al. ‘Immunohistochemical BAG1 expression improves the estimation of residual risk by IHC4 in postmenopausal patients treated with anastrozole or tamoxifen: a TransATAC study’. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 2013.
Arnedos M, et al. ‘Biomarker changes associated with the development of resistance to aromatase inhibitors (AIs) in estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer’. Annals of Oncology, 2014.
Garcia-Murillas I, et al. ‘Assessment of Molecular Relapse Detection in Early-Stage Breast Cancer’. JAMA Oncology, 2019.
Haynes BP, et al. ‘Menstrual cycle-associated changes in hormone-related gene expression in oestrogen receptor-positive breast cancer’. NPJ Breast Cancer, 2019.
Haynes BP, et al. ‘Molecular changes in premenopausal oestrogen receptor-positive primary breast cancer in Vietnamese women after oophorectomy’. NPJ Breast Cancer, 2017.
Leal MF, et al. ‘Early Enrichment of ESR1 Mutations and the Impact on Gene Expression in Presurgical Primary Breast Cancer Treated with Aromatase Inhibitors’. Clin Cancer Research, 2019.
López-Knowles E, et al. ‘Heterogeneity in global gene expression profiles between biopsy specimens taken peri-surgically from primary ER-positive breast carcinomas’. Breast Cancer Res, 2016.

She is currently undergoing a Master’s programme in Psychology and Counselling to enhance her academic achievement, which will, in turn, help with her coaching sessions.