About Elaine
Elaine Macgregor is a counsellor and clinical supervisor based in the United Kingdom. She works with adults and brings four years of professional experience to sessions. Elaine is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, which underpins her practice.
Elaine practises an integrative approach, so she adapts methods to the person in front of her. She often uses acceptance and commitment ideas alongside cognitive behavioural tools and attachment-informed thinking.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be practical and grounded, focusing on what feels manageable in day-to-day life. Common concerns Elaine helps people with include stress, anxiety, depression and grief. She also supports those facing relationship difficulties, intimacy issues, family problems and the fallout from trauma and abuse.
Additional areas she works on are self-esteem, addictions, eating and sleeping issues, and coping with life changes. Elaine pays attention to patterns in relationships and to attachment styles. She helps people recognise unhelpful dynamics and develop new ways of relating.
That can mean building self-awareness, setting clearer boundaries, or learning different ways to communicate. Sessions can be short or longer term depending on need. Elaine offers clinical supervision and teaches counselling as well as providing direct support.
She speaks English and Portuguese and welcomes people from outside the UK who prefer to work in those languages.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Elaine commonly draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Attachment-Based ideas in her online work. ACT focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while taking actions that match their values; it can be useful for anxiety, stress and coping with life changes. Attachment-based techniques look at patterns in close relationships and how early connection styles shape current responses, which helps when relationship dynamics or intimacy issues are a concern.Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Elaine will work collaboratively to choose methods that fit the person's needs, goals and preferences. She tailors sessions over time, checking in about what is helping and adjusting focus if required.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls are good for face-to-face dialogue and visual cues, phone sessions suit people with lower bandwidth or who prefer not to be on camera, and live chat or messaging can work for brief check-ins and flexible, ongoing contact. These options offer practical flexibility for fitting therapy around work, family and travel commitments while keeping the work focused and goal oriented.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
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