About Elena
Elena Lanza draws on a client-centred and attachment-based approach to help people facing stress, anxiety and relationship difficulties. She brings six years of practice and a calm, approachable manner to sessions. Elena uses clear, practical techniques alongside reflective conversation to help people make sense of their feelings.
She offers help for a wide range of concerns including depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, ADHD and grief. Intimacy-related issues, eating and sleeping problems, anger and low self-esteem are also part of her focus.
How Elena works
Additional areas include adoption and foster care, abandonment and attachment difficulties. Elena blends cognitive behavioural tools with emotionally-focused and existential ways of thinking. This means she will work on thoughts and behaviours, emotional responses in relationships, and broader questions about meaning where helpful.
Sessions combine talking, simple exercises and techniques to manage strong feelings. Her practice also pays attention to neurodiversity and to people exploring sexual diversity and kink culture. She supports people dealing with chronic illness, caregiving stress, cancer, and blended family issues.
Practical coping strategies and reflective exploration are used side by side. Elena is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, shown as BACP. She offers sessions in English and Italian and accepts international clients.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. To begin, people choose the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability. Costs vary by location and follow a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
Elena lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
What Elena works with
The areas below are the ones Elena selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English, Italian |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Elena’s approaches work online
Elena uses attachment-based work to look at how patterns in close relationships shape feelings and reactions. This approach can help with relationship strain, intimacy-related issues and attachment difficulties by exploring emotional responses and safety in relationships.She also uses client-centred therapy which focuses on listening closely and following the client’s own pace. This creates space for people to talk through what matters most and to discover their own answers rather than being told what to do.
Cognitive behavioural therapy, often blended into sessions, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviours and then tests practical ways to change them. It is useful for anxiety, low mood, sleep problems and coping with day-to-day stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Elena will discuss goals and preferences and suggest which methods to try first. Together they will review progress and adapt the plan as needed so the approach fits the person and their situation.
Online therapy gives flexibility in how people meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit short updates, reflective writing or people who prefer typing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and travel while keeping consistent contact with a registered professional.
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