Elena Lanza, BACP

Elena Lanza is a compassionate counsellor who guides people through healing and self-discovery with warmth and professional insight. She creates a calm, nonjudgmental environment where individuals can explore feelings, make sense of difficult experiences, and work toward meaningful change. Elena recognises that life can feel overwhelming at times and that professional support is often a necessary step alongside friends and family. She supports clients who seek help for a single problem as well as those who want a deeper exploration of their life story and emotional patterns.

Her practice blends humanistic, psychodynamic, and cognitive behavioural approaches to tailor therapy to each person’s needs. She draws on creative tools such as art therapy, mindfulness, and breath work to help manage strong emotions and intrusive thoughts, and she uses Internal Family Systems techniques to help clients connect with different parts of themselves. Elena also offers specialised integration work for people processing psychedelic experiences, bringing knowledge and sensitivity to those journeys.

Elena has experience working with a wide range of concerns including anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addiction, bereavement, and neurodiversity such as ADHD and autism. She welcomes people from diverse backgrounds and the LGBT community, and she aims to hold each person s experience with respect and clarity. Elena is associated with the BACP - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - and approaches each therapeutic relationship with empathy, curiosity, and practical support.

Online therapy grounded in attachment, person-centred, and CBT approaches

Elena draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to explore how early relationships shape current emotional patterns and interpersonal responses - this approach can help with relationship difficulties, abandonment issues, and attachment-related distress. She uses Client-Centred Therapy to prioritise the client s perspective, offering an empathetic, non-directive space that supports self-exploration and personal growth, which is often helpful for building self-esteem and working through life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviours, offering practical strategies for anxiety, low mood, and stress management.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic journey. Elena collaborates with each person to determine which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting the focus as progress unfolds. This collaborative process helps ensure therapy feels relevant and respectful of individual differences.

Online sessions - whether by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging - offer flexibility for busy lives and for clients who live at a distance. These formats make regular contact more accessible, allow therapy to fit into varied schedules, and enable continuity of care across locations, while maintaining the professional relationship and therapeutic work with licensed professionals.