About Elena
Elena Ciortescu is a psychotherapist who focuses on anxiety, stress and related emotional struggles. She uses an integrative, relational approach that adapts to each person's needs. Elena speaks English and Romanian and works with people from a variety of backgrounds across the United Kingdom and internationally.
Elena keeps therapy straightforward and practical. She often combines talking with gentle skills practice from cognitive behavioural approaches. Sessions look at patterns that keep problems going and small steps people can take between meetings.
Background and approach
Her style draws on attachment ideas and emotionally-focused work to help people understand important relationships. That can be useful for concerns about intimacy, communication, or feeling disconnected from others. Existential themes - such as meaning and identity - are also part of the conversation when they feel relevant.
Elena has around 10 years of experience, including work in independent practice, education and the charity sector. She also runs online group therapy that blends structured activities with peer discussion. That format can help people learn new coping tools while hearing others' perspectives.
Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Elena works collaboratively on goals and practical next steps. To start, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions through the service.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Attachment-based work looks at how important relationships shape current feelings and reactions, and helps people notice patterns that repeat in close connections. It can be useful for relationship strain, attachment issues and intimacy concerns. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and teaches hands-on strategies for anxiety, low mood and sleeping problems. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify, accept and express underlying emotions so they can improve communication and closeness in relationships.Finding the right combination of methods is part of the process. Elena works collaboratively to pick approaches that match someone’s goals, preferences and day-to-day life. This might mean starting with practical CBT skills, then adding attachment or emotionally-focused work as trust grows and deeper material comes up.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people see facial cues and do longer sessions, while phone sessions suit those with limited bandwidth or who prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins and ongoing coaching easier to fit into a busy day. These options make it simpler to keep momentum between sessions and to choose a format that fits individual routines and needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Romanian
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