About Elena
Elena Simona Lazar is a counsellor with six years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She holds BACP registration, and brings a background in nursing to her counselling work. Elena focuses on reducing stress and anxiety while helping people understand their relationships and emotional patterns.
She creates a calm, non-judgemental space where people can talk about painful feelings. Sessions aim to increase clarity about what someone is experiencing and why certain reactions keep happening.
Background and approach
Elena uses several approaches and adapts them to each person's needs. Her past nursing work shaped a practical, pragmatic approach to emotional difficulties. She combines that with talking therapies to help with low self-esteem, motivation, grief and anger.
She also supports people facing addictions, trauma, chronic illness and life changes. Elena often looks at how patterns in relationships and family life affect day-to-day wellbeing. She helps people explore intimacy issues, communication problems and how to set healthier boundaries.
Sessions may include techniques to improve mood, self-care and confidence. People who choose Elena tend to want straightforward, compassionate help and practical steps to feel better. She works in English and Romanian, and offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging.
To start, a short questionnaire matches people and timings are scheduled around therapist availability.
Approaches and how online therapy works
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and accepting a person where they are. It helps people who need a supportive space to talk through anxiety, low self-esteem or relationship worries.Internal Family Systems looks at the different parts inside someone - for example an anxious part and a protective part - and helps those parts talk to each other. This approach can be useful for trauma, addiction patterns and recurring emotional reactions.
Systemic Therapy examines how relationships and family patterns influence current problems. It can help with communication problems, blended family issues and patterns that repeat across relationships.
Elena treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, then adapt methods so sessions fit the person. This collaborative way helps people feel involved in planning their work.
Online therapy with Elena uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to make counselling flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face connection, phone sessions suit lower bandwidth or hands-free conversations, live chat works for shorter check-ins and messaging lets people write when it suits them. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work across different locations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Romanian
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