About Ylenia
Ylenia Ceccarelli is a relationship counsellor who focuses on helping people manage anxiety and relationship strain. She draws on emotion-focused and attachment-informed ways of working to help clients understand patterns and feel more connected. She speaks English and Italian and offers sessions to people in the United Kingdom.
Ylenia's background includes a degree in Psychosocial Studies and training in psychodynamic principles. She completed a Level 5 Diploma in Relationship Counselling through a CPCAB-accredited programme delivered by Relate, and she is a member of the National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society (NCPS).
Background and approach
Her earlier work as a Samaritans volunteer leader gave her experience providing emotional support in difficult moments. In sessions she focuses on clear, practical steps as well as on feelings. She helps people spot repeating patterns, improve communication, and rebuild trust after betrayal.
She also supports those dealing with life changes such as separation, relocation, or becoming a parent, and with issues like intimacy, self-esteem, and body image. Her approach weaves Emotionally-Focused Therapy with attachment ideas and systemic thinking. That means sessions will look at emotions, how they show up in relationships, and what practical changes might reduce stress and improve connection.
The work is tailored to each person's goals rather than following a fixed formula. Ylenia keeps her practice culturally aware and straightforward. She shares practical tips on relationship skills through social media and uses ongoing professional development to inform her practice.
Online relationship and attachment-focused therapy
Ylenia uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people understand and process emotions that drive relationship patterns. EFT aims to identify core feelings, reorganise emotional responses and strengthen closeness in relationships, which can help with anxiety linked to connection and trust issues.She also works from an Attachment-Based perspective, looking at how early patterns and attachment needs shape current reactions. This approach helps people see why certain situations trigger strong responses and gives practical ways to shift those patterns in daily life.
Choosing the right approach is something she does together with each client. She will discuss goals, personal preferences and what feels most helpful, and then adapt methods as the work progresses. The aim is a collaborative plan that fits the person's concerns and pace.
Online sessions can include video calls, phone appointments, live chat or text-based messaging, offering flexible ways to keep therapy going. Video calls allow visual cues for emotion work, phone sessions can fit a shorter break or use less bandwidth, and messaging formats are useful for quick check-ins or when written reflection helps. These options make it easier to maintain continuity and to fit therapy around daily life.
Questions people ask
What concerns does this counsellor address?
What is the therapeutic style like?
How much practical experience does she have?
What credentials and location are listed?
Which languages are supported?
What session formats are available?
How are costs handled?
How do I begin working with her?
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Italian
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.