Elena Lanza, BACP

Elena Lanza is a counsellor who blends compassion with practical tools to help people through hard times. She uses a mix of therapeutic styles to make sense of difficult feelings and guide clients toward clearer choices. Elena welcomes people from diverse backgrounds, including LGBTQIA+ communities, and works in English and Italian.

Elena offers short-term and deeper work depending on what someone needs. She helps people who are anxious, struggling with mood, or facing relationship and intimacy-related issues. She also supports those dealing with trauma and abuse, grief, addiction, neurodiversity concerns such as ADHD and autism, and the stresses of caregiving and illness.

Her approach draws on attachment-focused ideas to look at how early relationships shape patterns. She uses client-centred listening to help people feel heard, and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) techniques to address thoughts and behaviours that cause distress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy ideas are used when relationship feelings and bonds are central.

Practical tools such as mindfulness and breath work are introduced to help manage intense emotions. Elena sometimes uses art-based exercises and elements of Internal Family Systems to explore different parts of a person's inner life. She also offers integration work for people processing psychedelic experiences, described in the original biography.

Elena has six years of professional experience and holds BACP registration. She works with people across a wide range of life challenges and aims to tailor each session to the individual’s needs.

How Elena’s approaches work in online therapy

Elena works from attachment-based and client-centred perspectives alongside Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Attachment-based work explores how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people notice and change repeating dynamics in close relationships. Client-centred therapy focuses on empathy and listening so the person feels understood and can find their own solutions. CBT targets unhelpful thoughts and behaviours with clear, practical exercises to reduce anxiety and improve day-to-day functioning.

Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Elena will discuss what matters most to the person and try approaches that match their goals and preferences. This is a collaborative process where methods are adapted as understanding grows.

The biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, for example by removing travel time or allowing shorter check-ins during a work break. It can also help when quieter surroundings or using only audio are preferable because of lower bandwidth or for a less visual experience. Registered or accredited professionals often find that online sessions still allow meaningful progress when the approach and pace suit the person’s needs.