About Elena
Elena Simona Lazar trained in healthcare before moving into counselling work. She is BACP registered and has six years of experience supporting people with stress, anxiety, depression and relationship concerns. Elena speaks English and Romanian and offers sessions to people in the United Kingdom.
She draws on a background in nursing alongside counselling studies to understand both practical and emotional challenges. That experience shaped her interest in helping people find clearer thinking and steadier moods when life feels hard.
How Elena works
Sessions aim to be calm and straightforward rather than clinical or jargon-filled. Elena uses a mix of approaches and adapts them to each person. She focuses on what a person wants to change and works at a pace that feels manageable.
People can expect to talk through patterns, identify what keeps problems going, and try simple practical steps between sessions. Common areas she helps with include relationship and family strain, low self-esteem, anger, addictions and coping with life changes. She also supports people facing trauma, intimacy-related issues, parenting concerns, career stress and compassion fatigue.
Elena pays attention to how past attachment and abandonment experiences can shape current responses. Elena prefers a collaborative style. She offers listening, gentle challenge and practical tools when useful.
Her aim is to help people build more helpful habits, improve communication, and feel more confident managing difficult feelings. Sessions are offered via video, phone, live chat or text messaging. People interested in working with her begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and then arrange sessions that fit their schedule.
Elena lists 3 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
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English, Romanian |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Elena’s approaches work in online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on giving the person space to talk and be heard without judgement. It helps when someone needs clearer self-understanding and someone who listens with warmth and acceptance.Internal Family Systems looks at how different parts of a person can hold beliefs, memories or emotions. This approach can help with patterns such as self-criticism, trauma responses or strong emotions by gently separating those parts and helping them relate differently.
Systemic Therapy pays attention to the ways relationships and family dynamics shape problems. It can be useful for improving communication, managing blended family issues, or making changes in how people interact at home or at work.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Elena will talk with each person about goals and preferences and suggest ways of working that match their needs. That collaboration helps make sessions feel tailored rather than one-size-fits-all.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video is useful for a near face-to-face conversation, phone can fit into a busy day with lower bandwidth, and messaging or live chat can be a shorter check-in or a way to reflect between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments while still working with registered or accredited professionals.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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