Ylenia Ceccarelli
Relationship-focused counsellor helping rebuild connection
About Ylenia
Ylenia Ceccarelli works from a relationship-focused perspective to help people untangle communication problems and build more connected relationships. She offers direct, practical support for issues such as anxiety, stress, low self-esteem and difficulties with intimacy. Ylenia speaks English and Italian and brings three years' professional experience to her counselling work in the United Kingdom.
Her practice centres on understanding how attachment and emotional patterns shape everyday behaviour. Sessions aim to identify repeating cycles, name the feelings involved and try small changes that shift how people relate to each other.
Background and approach
She uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy alongside client-centred and attachment-based ideas to create a collaborative space where clients set their own goals. Ylenia trained in psychosocial studies and completed a Level 5 Diploma in Relationship Counselling. She is a member of the National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society - NCPS.
Earlier roles include volunteering as a Samaritans leader, where she provided emotional support to people in distress. Typical concerns she helps with include relationship conflicts, trust and betrayal, intimacy issues, separation and life transitions, and the emotional impact of parenting or blended family challenges. She also supports people facing abandonment, attachment difficulties, immigration worries and body image concerns.
In sessions Ylenia keeps language plain and practical. Conversations focus on what people notice in their day-to-day interactions and on steps they can try between meetings. Her work aims to make relationships clearer and more manageable rather than offer quick fixes.
What Ylenia works with
How Ylenia works
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Sessions & fees
How relationship work translates to online therapy
Attachment-based therapy focuses on how early bonds shape current relationships. It helps people spot repeating patterns of closeness or distance and name the feelings that drive them. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) looks at the emotional moments that drive conflict and disconnection and guides people to express needs more clearly and respond differently. The Gottman Method offers practical tools for communication and conflict management, with exercises to practise between sessions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss your goals and preferences and suggest a mix of methods that fit your situation. This is a collaborative process and the plan can change as you progress or as needs shift.
Online sessions use video calls, phone conversations, live chat or text messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls let people work face to face when visual cues matter, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and messaging suits quick check-ins or ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, travel or family commitments while still focusing on meaningful relationship change.
| 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
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English, Italian
