Elena Ciortescu, NCPS

Elena Ciortescu is a psychotherapist based in the United Kingdom who supports individuals facing anxiety, depression, identity changes, and emotional overwhelm. With a decade of experience across private practice, education, and the charity sector, she combines practical training and relational focus to help clients reconnect with their strengths and values.

Her approach is integrative and relational, tailoring therapy to each person by drawing on evidence-based methods alongside attention to lived experience, beliefs, and personal history. She holds the NCPS credential, a professional credential in the psychotherapy field, and brings that training to work with people from diverse backgrounds. Rather than positioning herself as someone who will fix problems, she aims to walk alongside clients as they explore who they are and what matters most to them.

Elena works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, relationship and family difficulties, trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, ADHD, grief, intimacy-related issues, eating and sleeping problems, parenting challenges, self-esteem, career matters, bipolar and depression, and coping with life changes. She also attends to attachment and abandonment issues, adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric concerns, autism and Asperger syndrome, codependency, communication and control issues, dissociation, and domestic violence.

As a facilitator of online group therapy, she offers structured sessions where participants can learn from one another, practice skills, and gain peer support. People describe her as warm, thoughtful, and down-to-earth, and she aims to create a space where clients feel able to explore difficult material and grow with compassion and clarity.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Delivery

Elena works online using several complementary approaches that guide the way she supports clients. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns formed in early relationships and how they affect current connections - it helps with relationship difficulties, attachment concerns, and healing from abandonment or adoption-related wounds. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathy, acceptance, and the client’s own pace of change - it is useful for building self-esteem, navigating identity shifts, and finding clarity during life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) offers practical strategies to identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can be effective for anxiety, stress, low mood, and coping with everyday challenges.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Elena collaborates with each client to assess needs, goals, and preferences, and together they decide which methods or combination of methods fit best. This collaborative stance helps shape a personalised plan that can adapt over time.

Online therapy with Elena is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, providing flexibility for different schedules, time zones, and communication styles. These options make it easier for clients to access consistent support from licensed professionals and therapists while balancing work, family, and other commitments.