Elena Lanza

Elena Lanza is a counsellor who blends humanistic care with cognitive and psychodynamic ideas. She works in a warm, respectful way and supports people through feelings that feel hard to manage. Elena welcomes diverse backgrounds and offers sessions in English and Italian.

She helps people make sense of their emotions and the experiences that shape them. Sessions often look at patterns in relationships and attachment, and explore how past events still affect day-to-day life. Practical tools such as mindfulness, breath work and art activities are used alongside talking to help manage strong feelings.

Elena draws on several approaches so the work fits the person. This can include cognitive behavioural techniques to spot unhelpful thinking, emotionally-focused ideas to clarify relationship needs, and attachment-based exploration to understand early bonds. She aims to balance insight with practical steps that people can use between sessions.

She has worked in the field for six years and holds BACP registration, which is shown as BACP. That experience includes supporting people facing anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, addiction and neurodiversity-related issues such as ADHD and autism. Elena also lists interests in intimacy, sexual diversity, bereavement and caregiver stress.

For people exploring identity, relationships or recovery from difficult events, she offers calm, non-judgemental support. The focus is on listening closely, building understanding together, and helping clients try new ways of coping that suit their life.

Therapeutic approaches and how they work online

Attachment-based work focuses on how early bonds shape current relationships and emotional responses. Online conversations can help identify those patterns and practice new ways of relating to others and to yourself.

Client-centred therapy emphasises being heard and accepted. In this approach the therapist listens with curiosity and follows the client's lead, which can help people feel understood and build trust over time.

Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions connect. Online sessions can teach straightforward techniques to notice unhelpful thinking and try small behavioural experiments between meetings.

Finding the right approach is part of the work and will be decided together. The therapist will discuss your needs, goals and preferences and suggest ways of working that fit you. This collaborative planning helps make sessions practical and relevant.

Practical benefits of online therapy include fitting sessions around daily life and reducing travel time. It can also make shorter check-ins easier to arrange when schedules are tight. The original biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm current options before booking to ensure they match your needs.