Elena Simona Lazar
Warm counsellor blending nursing insight and therapy
About Elena
Elena Simona Lazar trained and practises in the United Kingdom and brings six years of experience to her counselling work. She combines her previous nursing background with counselling skills to listen to practical life problems. Elena aims to help people find clearer thinking and renewed motivation.
She offers sessions in English and Romanian. Elena focuses on stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and depression. She also helps with relationship and family matters, intimacy-related issues, anger and addiction concerns.
Background and approach
Practical problems like career strain, caregiving stress, chronic illness and body image are included in her scope. Her style is warm and non-judgemental. Elena creates space for people to share thoughts and feelings at their own pace.
She works alongside clients to identify repeated patterns and to build new ways of responding. Elena draws on Client-Centred Therapy, Internal Family Systems and Systemic Therapy in her sessions. Techniques are adapted to each person and may include exploring internal parts, looking at relationships, or focusing on present feelings.
She aims for clear steps people can try between sessions. Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, and operate through a cancellable subscription. Elena’s combination of clinical knowledge and hands-on nursing experience informs a practical, caring approach to common life challenges.
What Elena works with
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Sessions & fees
How Elena’s approaches work online
Elena uses Client-Centred Therapy to build a supportive, listening space where people can talk about what matters to them. This approach focuses on understanding the person’s experience and helping them find their own solutions, which suits issues like low self-esteem and anxiety.She also draws on Internal Family Systems, which helps people notice different internal parts or voices and how they affect behaviour. That method can be useful for trauma responses, anger, addiction or difficult relationship patterns. Systemic Therapy is used to look at how relationships and family dynamics influence a person’s difficulties, helping identify interaction patterns and practical ways to change them.
Finding the right fit is part of the work. Elena will discuss approaches with each person and choose or combine methods based on their goals and preferences. She sees the decision as a collaborative process and adapts techniques as needs evolve.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions can be easier if video or bandwidth are limited. Live chat and messaging offer shorter check-ins and flexibility for people who need to fit therapy around work or caregiving. These formats make it easier to keep regular contact and to try techniques between sessions.
| 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
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Romanian