Mandy Elliott
Compassionate counsellor focusing on everyday recovery
About Mandy
Mandy Elliott is a counsellor and a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, with eight years of professional practice in the United Kingdom. She uses a person-focused style that treats the client as the expert on their own life.
Mandy draws on lived experience and therapeutic practice to help people make sense of hard moments and feel more able to move forward. Her background includes supporting people with anxiety, depression, stress and trauma, plus issues around relationships, grief and parenting.
Background and approach
She also works with concerns such as chronic pain and illness, sleep problems, anger and career uncertainty. Mandy pays attention to how attachment, shame and self-worth affect day-to-day coping. Mandy typically uses Client-Centred Therapy, which emphasises listening and responding to the person in front of her.
She also brings mindfulness practices from years of Buddhist study into sessions when clients want grounding skills and techniques to manage overwhelming feelings. These approaches are offered in plain language and practical steps. In sessions she aims to create a non-judgemental space where people can talk through what matters to them.
Conversations focus on identifying strengths, clarifying goals and trying out new ways of coping. Mandy encourages small, practical changes that fit into real life. For those who want to begin, she asks people to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions.
Therapy is delivered online and can be tailored to how the person prefers to meet and work together.
What Mandy works with
How Mandy works
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Sessions & fees
How Mandy’s approach works online
Client-Centred Therapy places the person’s experience at the centre of sessions. The counsellor listens carefully, reflects understanding and helps the client find their own solutions. This approach is useful for issues like anxiety, depression, relationship strain and questions about self-worth.Mandy also brings mindfulness practices into her work drawn from years of Buddhist training. These are practical breathing and attention exercises that help with stress, sleeping difficulties and emotional overwhelm. Mindfulness is offered as a skill people can use between sessions to steady themselves.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and Mandy treats it as a collaboration. She will discuss goals, try different small steps and adjust methods based on what works for the individual. The aim is to build confidence, clearer thinking and better ways of coping that fit the person’s life.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video is helpful for full conversations and visual cues, phone calls use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break, while chat or messaging can suit quick check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, study and family 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
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
