Elena Dinu
Practical, experienced psychotherapist
About Elena
Elena Dinu offers calm, steady support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression and relationship strain. She is a counsellor who listens carefully and helps people talk through what matters most. Elena uses straightforward, practical steps so people can make small changes that add up over time.
Elena has worked in the UK and Romania for more than 22 years. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - BACP.
Background and approach
That experience includes work with people dealing with addiction, eating concerns, trauma and abuse, grief and sleeping difficulties. She also supports those coping with parenting strain, career pressures and compassion fatigue. In sessions she focuses on building trust and a respectful connection first.
Conversations are paced to suit each person, with attention to immediate problems and longer term goals. She aims for clear, reachable steps rather than jargon or complex theories. Elena speaks English and Romanian, and draws on a broad clinical background developed over two decades.
Her approach is shaped by evidence-based therapeutic techniques and by practical experience in different care settings. People find the sessions accessible and grounded in everyday concerns. If someone wants to start, they begin with a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions.
Therapy is delivered online through a mix of video calls, phone, live chat and text messaging. Sessions are offered using a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
What Elena works with
Sessions & fees
How Elena uses therapeutic approaches online
Elena draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help with common emotional and behavioural problems. One useful approach focuses on practical skills to manage strong emotions and reduce anxiety by breaking problems into small, manageable steps and practising new ways of coping. Another approach targets patterns that keep unhelpful behaviours in place, helping people spot triggers, try different responses and build healthier routines.Choosing the right way of working is collaborative. Elena will talk with each person about their goals, what has or has not helped before, and any practical limits on time or energy. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the approach as progress is made or priorities change.
Online therapy can be easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that feels helpful, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a simpler check-in, and live chat or text messaging lets people share thoughts between sessions or have shorter check-ins. These options make it straightforward to continue work across days, jobs and family commitments while using methods tailored to the individual.
| 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
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 22 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Romanian
