Elsa Da Cruz
Compassionate counsellor for stress and relationships
About Elsa
Elsa Da Cruz helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem and relationship difficulties. She also supports those facing grief, anger, ADHD-related challenges and issues linked to identity and LGBT concerns. Elsa communicates in English, Spanish and Portuguese and works with people across different countries from the United Kingdom.
Elsa uses a gentle, people-centred style. She listens without judgement and focuses on what matters most to each person.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to increase understanding, calm overwhelming feelings and build practical steps forward. Her approach combines client-centred work with cognitive behavioural techniques and elements of emotionally-focused and mindfulness practice. That means sessions balance exploring feelings with small, actionable changes to thoughts and behaviours.
Mindfulness exercises and solution-focused conversations are used when they fit a person’s goals. Elsa has eight years of experience in counselling work and holds BACP accreditation. She has supported people with a wide range of concerns including attachment and abandonment issues, blended family challenges, body image, codependency, and difficulties after separation or domestic violence.
Practical matters are straightforward. Elsa offers conversations that can be used as coaching or therapy depending on the need. She aims to help people feel safer in their relationships, clearer about choices, and better able to manage daily stressors.
To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions based on the therapist’s availability. Sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat or text messaging.
What Elsa works with
How Elsa works
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Sessions & fees
How Elsa’s approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person and their experience. The therapist listens closely and helps people feel heard so they can explore what matters most. This approach is useful for people who need a steady, accepting space to talk through personal issues.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions link together. Sessions often include simple experiments and step-by-step tasks to reduce anxiety or low mood. It suits people who want clear tools to change patterns that cause distress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Elsa will discuss goals and preferences and try different ways of working until something fits. That process is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs rather than fixed from the start.
Online therapy makes these approaches flexible and easier to attend. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when seeing expressions matters. Phone sessions can be quicker or use less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging suit brief check-ins, written reflections or people who prefer not to speak out loud. Registered or accredited professionals offer these formats so people can choose what fits their routine and comfort.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| 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
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Spanish, Portuguese
