About Elinor
Elinor Taylor uses a client-centred approach to shape therapy around each person. She brings a calm, attentive presence and focuses on what matters to the individual in the room. Her work aims to make sense of painful feelings and improve day-to-day coping.
Elinor is a BACP counsellor with four years' experience based in the United Kingdom. She helps people with relationship and intimacy issues, family concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem, anxiety and depression.
How Elinor works
She also supports people facing eating concerns, ADHD, stress and major life changes. Her practice draws on cognitive behavioural ideas and dialectical behaviour techniques when helpful, alongside emotionally-focused and existential perspectives. That means she will use practical strategies for mood and thinking, alongside work on emotions and the meanings people give their lives.
Sessions are shaped to fit each person's needs rather than following a fixed script. Elinor often brings mindfulness into sessions to help clients notice body sensations and feelings. She describes this as a way to connect thoughts and physical experience so that feelings become clearer and easier to work with.
The pace is collaborative and respectful, with space for questions and feedback. People can expect straightforward conversation, practical tools and time to reflect. She pays particular attention to issues around attachment, abandonment, body image, caregiving stress, chronic illness and aspects of kink and alternative sexual culture.
Work continues until clients feel they have made the changes they came for.
Elinor lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Elinor works with
The areas below are the ones Elinor selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening closely and following the client's lead. It helps people who want a compassionate space to talk through feelings and make sense of difficult situations. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts influence mood and behaviour and offers practical tools for changing unhelpful patterns. It is often useful for anxiety, depression and stress. Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, or DBT, teaches skills for managing intense emotions and improving distress tolerance and interpersonal effectiveness; it can be helpful when emotions feel overwhelming.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences and what feels most useful. Together they decide whether to focus on skills, emotion work, or making sense of life choices, and they adjust the plan as progress happens.
Online work is offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into everyday life. Video is useful for a full conversation with visual cues. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and messaging suit people who prefer written reflection or need more flexible interaction. These options help clients access therapy around work, family and travel commitments, while keeping sessions practical and focused.
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