About Elena
Elena Lanza is a counsellor who blends somatic awareness with talking therapy to help people feel steadier in their lives. She draws on practical breath work, gentle body-based techniques and conversation to support people managing stress, anxiety, trauma and relationship difficulties. She works in a calm, accepting way and aims to make sessions straightforward and practical.
Elena uses client-centred principles to follow what matters to the person in front of her.
Background and approach
She also brings cognitive tools to address unhelpful thoughts and patterns. With six years of experience, Elena has supported people with depression, grief, addiction and issues around intimacy and self-esteem. She also has knowledge of neurodiversity and works with concerns such as ADHD and autism where that is relevant to someone’s wellbeing.
Elena is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She offers work in English and Italian and sees clients in the United Kingdom and internationally. Her sessions can include breath work, art-based exercises and reflective conversation.
She aims to help people notice how thoughts and body sensations interact, and to develop simple strategies for coping with life’s changes. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to availability. The practice uses a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How somatic and talking approaches work online
Elena combines somatic awareness with attachment-informed and client-centred work to help people notice how the body and feelings relate. Somatic techniques involve simple breath work and body-based exercises that can help with tension, panic and grounding during stressful moments. Attachment-based work looks at how past relationships shape current patterns and helps people make different, healthier choices in relationships.Client-centred therapy means the conversation follows the person’s priorities, with the therapist reflecting and supporting rather than directing. Elena treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. Together the person and therapist will try approaches that feel helpful and adjust based on what actually helps with the person’s goals and needs.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face connection for exercises and breath work, while phone, chat or text can suit people who prefer less visual contact or who need more flexible, shorter check-ins. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and different time zones.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Italian