Elena Lanza, BACP
6 years in practice
Elena Lanza is a counsellor who draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy alongside other approaches to help people facing emotional pain.
License and registration
- BACP
- 404144 · expires February 2027
- Years in practice
- 6
- Languages
- English, Italian
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the registration with the body that granted it.
About Elena
Elena Lanza is a counsellor who draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy alongside other approaches to help people facing emotional pain. She offers a calm, open space where people can talk about difficult feelings and start to make sense of them. Elena works with a wide range of concerns including anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction and relationship difficulties.
She also supports people dealing with grief, parenting strain, work stress, eating and sleeping issues, and neurodiverse needs such as ADHD and autism.
Background and approach
Sessions are offered in English and Italian and she accepts international clients. Her style blends client-centred listening with attachment-based thinking and practical tools from cognitive behavioural work. This means sessions mix reflective conversation with straightforward strategies to manage upsetting thoughts and reactions.
Elena aims to tailor the approach to each person’s needs rather than using one fixed method. She has six years of counselling experience and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. That registration is listed as her professional credential.
Elena uses creative techniques too, such as breath work and simple art exercises, when these help someone connect with feelings that are hard to name. People often come to her to understand patterns that repeat in their relationships, to cope with life changes, or to process past wounds.
She encourages honest conversation and works collaboratively to find steps that feel manageable in day-to-day life.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Elena lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- ADHD
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Elena names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Therapeutic approaches and online therapy options
Elena uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people identify and shift painful emotional states and the interaction patterns that keep them stuck. This is useful for people wanting to understand strong feelings and improve the way they respond to relationship stress and personal losses.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy, which looks at how early bonds shape current emotional needs and coping styles. This approach can help people understand recurring patterns in relationships and build new ways of connecting. Client-Centred Therapy is another thread in her work, offering a non-judgemental space where the person sets the pace and direction of the conversation.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Elena will talk through your goals and preferences and suggest a mix of methods that fit your situation. The decision about which techniques to use is collaborative and can change as progress unfolds.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video is good for more in-depth conversation, phone calls can fit into a short break, live chat can suit quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family life and travel, while accessing registered or accredited professionals from different locations.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does Elena help with?
Elena supports people with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, addictions, grief and many related concerns listed in her specialties.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
She combines Emotionally-Focused Therapy with attachment-based and client-centred approaches, alongside cognitive behavioural techniques to blend reflection with practical strategies.
What is her background and experience?
She has six years of counselling experience working with diverse emotional and relational issues and with neurodiverse needs such as ADHD and autism.
What credentials and location are on record?
She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and is based in the United Kingdom.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English and Italian and she is able to work with international clients.
What session formats are available?
Elena offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different preferences and schedules.
How does the cost of sessions work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
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