Elena Lanza
Compassionate therapy combining insight and practical tools
About Elena
Elena Lanza offers a warm, person-centred approach that puts the client's experience first. She combines listening with practical methods to help people make sense of painful thoughts and feelings. Elena works in English and Italian and practises from the United Kingdom.
She uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. Client-Centred Therapy is used to keep sessions focused on the person's needs and pace. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and build different habits.
Background and approach
Elena has six years of experience working with many concerns. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression and grief. She also supports those dealing with trauma and abuse, addictions, bipolar difficulties and chronic health challenges.
Her practice includes attention to relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, communication problems and career-related stress. Elena also works with neurodiversity matters such as ADHD and autism, and with concerns linked to adoption, abandonment and attachment issues. Sessions can include breath work, mindfulness and creative activities when these feel useful.
Elena aims to tailor the work so it fits each person's goals and life circumstances. She welcomes diverse sexual orientations and gender identities and aims to offer an inclusive space. People who choose Elena can expect a collaborative focus on understanding difficult patterns and developing practical ways to cope.
The work blends supportive listening with approaches aimed at change and clearer decision making.
What Elena works with
How Elena works
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Sessions & fees
How Elena’s approaches translate to online sessions
Elena commonly draws on Attachment-Based Therapy, which looks at how early bonds affect current relationships and emotional patterns. This approach can help with trust issues, communication problems and long-standing relational patterns. She also uses Client-Centred Therapy to keep the work focused on the person's priorities and tempo, offering non-judgemental listening and support. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is sometimes used to spot unhelpful thoughts and try practical experiments to change behaviour.Finding the right approach is treated as a collaborative process. Elena will discuss goals, try different methods and adjust the plan together with the client. The emphasis is on what helps the person feel understood while making useful changes over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone needs a shorter check-in, and chat or messaging can suit people who prefer writing or need flexible timing. These options offer greater flexibility for fitting therapy around work, family and travel commitments.
| 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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Italian
