Elaine Devlin
Compassionate counsellor for stress and trauma
About Elaine
Elaine Devlin helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, addictions and low self esteem. She also supports those facing sleep or eating difficulties, parenting strain, anger, bipolar challenges, ADHD and compassion fatigue. Elaine works with concerns related to loneliness, panic attacks, phobias and post-traumatic stress.
She offers a calm, non-judgemental space where people can talk honestly about what is hurting them. Elaine practices in the United Kingdom and has five years of experience.
Background and approach
Her qualification is NCPS, which is recorded here as the credential she uses in practice. She offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging for people who prefer to meet online. Her style is warm, collaborative and practical.
She listens first, then helps people spot patterns that make things harder. Together they try simple, realistic steps to reduce distress and build new habits. Sessions can be short term for a specific issue or open ended for ongoing support.
Elaine draws on a handful of well established approaches. She uses client-centred ideas to focus on each person’s experience, cognitive behavioural techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours, and emotionally-focused ideas to look at feelings and relationships. Mindfulness and psychodynamic elements are used when helpful.
To begin, people select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability. Costs vary by location and the service uses a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
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Sessions & fees
How Elaine’s approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person’s experience and aims to create a supportive space where they can be listened to and understood. It helps people who feel stuck, overwhelmed or unsure about their next steps by centring their own goals and pace.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour. It helps with anxiety, panic, phobias, low mood and unhelpful habits by teaching practical strategies to challenge thinking patterns and try new actions.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy concentrates on identifying and expressing core emotions and improving emotional processing. It can be useful for people who want to understand strong feelings, repair relational patterns, or reduce emotional reactivity.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Elaine will talk about what feels most useful and try methods that match the person’s needs, goals and preferences. That decision is made together and can change as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls offer a face-to-face feel, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit quicker check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help people fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments and make it easier to keep sessions consistent.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
