Elena Harvey-Kummer
Calm guidance for everyday emotional struggles
About Elena
Elena Harvey-Kummer works with people facing stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, anger, depression and major life changes. She also supports concerns such as body image, attachment and abandonment issues, communication struggles, eating-related difficulties, and questions about life purpose and sexuality. Elena uses straightforward talk and practical tools to help people feel steadier and more able to cope.
Elena has three years of professional experience and holds BACP, which is a British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy credential.
Background and approach
She believes the client is the expert in their own life and focuses on building a respectful, collaborative relationship. Sessions aim to mix understanding with clear strategies so work feels both thoughtful and useful. Her style blends listening with gentle challenge.
She pays attention to past experiences that shape current patterns and to the thoughts that keep problems alive. Practical exercises and short-term goals are used when helpful to shift unhelpful thinking and behaviour. Elena draws on a range of approaches to suit each person.
She may use client-centred methods to provide a listening space, cognitive behavioural ideas to spot and change thought patterns, and psychodynamic or existential perspectives to look at deeper meanings and patterns. Coaching tools are also used to support lasting change. Sessions are offered in English and can take different forms to fit people’s lives.
Elena aims to help people notice small changes that build into clearer choices, steadier moods and more confidence.
What Elena works with
How Elena works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches you can access online
Client-centred work focuses on listening and building a supportive relationship so people can explore feelings at their own pace; it helps with low self-worth, confusion about choices and emotional overwhelm. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings and actions and teaches practical techniques to change unhelpful patterns, which is useful for anxiety, low mood and stress. Psychodynamic or existential ideas help people notice how past experiences or deeper questions about meaning shape current reactions and decisions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss what feels most useful and adjust methods as therapy progresses. This is a collaborative process that centres the person’s goals, preferences and life situation when deciding which techniques to try.
Online therapy offers flexibility and practical advantages. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation without travel, phone sessions can fit into a break at work or need less bandwidth, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around daily life and to keep a consistent routine with registered or accredited professionals.
| 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
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
