Tina Elliston
Practical, client-centred support for life changes
About Tina
Tina Elliston is a counsellor and psychotherapist who uses a client-centred approach to help people with practical problems. She draws on cognitive behavioural techniques and mindfulness to support people dealing with stress, anxiety, grief and relationship concerns. Tina keeps her caseload deliberately small so she can give undivided attention to each person.
Tina works at a pace set by the individual. Sessions can include short tasks, worksheets and gentle check-ins between meetings to help people practise new skills.
Background and approach
The focus is on small, achievable steps that build confidence and reduce feeling stuck. She has five years of experience as a counsellor, and her background includes nursing and midwifery. That experience informs her work with health-related anxiety, fertility issues, baby loss and birth trauma.
She is also experienced in supporting people with perinatal concerns and women's health issues such as menopausal symptoms and sleep disruption. Tina lists a wide range of focus areas including bipolar, ADHD, attachment issues and caring-related stress. She also works with concerns such as low self-esteem, anger, career stress, intimacy-related difficulties and coping with life changes.
Additional interests include adoption and foster care, chronic illness and bereavement. Her listed approaches include Client-Centred Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), Mindfulness Therapy and Narrative Therapy. Tina offers sessions in English and accepts international clients for online formats, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging.
Tina holds NCPS as a credential. People start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling sessions according to the therapist's availability.
What Tina works with
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Sessions & fees
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Tina uses Client-Centred Therapy to focus on each person's needs and priorities, helping people set their own goals and move at a comfortable pace. This approach supports those who need a listening, non-judgemental space to talk through problems and decide what matters most to them.She also uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to break problems into manageable parts and teach practical skills. CBT is helpful for anxiety, low mood, sleep difficulties and stress because it includes clear steps and exercises people can try between sessions.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) is also part of her toolkit and helps people notice and name emotions that affect relationships and intimacy. EFT can support better communication and help people feel more connected to their own needs and to others.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk through options, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on the person's goals and preferences. Together they decide what works and change course if needed.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation, phone calls suit times when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging allow brief check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and medical appointments while keeping continuity of care.
| 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
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
