Elena Lanza, BACP
6 years in practice
Elena Lanza is a counsellor who uses an existential approach to help people make sense of difficult feelings and find meaning in their lives.
License and registration
- BACP
- 404144 · expires February 2027
- Years in practice
- 6
- Languages
- English, Italian
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the registration with the body that granted it.
About Elena
Elena Lanza is a counsellor who uses an existential approach to help people make sense of difficult feelings and find meaning in their lives. She combines warmth and practical support to guide clients through stress, anxiety, depression and relationship issues. Elena works in English and Italian and has six years of professional experience in the United Kingdom.
She frames emotional struggles as part of a larger life story. Sessions focus on what matters most to the individual, and on choices that feel authentic.
Background and approach
Practical tools such as mindfulness and breath work are used alongside talking to help manage strong emotions. Elena also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. This can help with communication problems, intimacy-related issues, abandonment concerns and codependency.
Cognitive techniques are introduced when they suit a person’s goals, for example to address unhelpful thinking linked to anxiety or low mood. She has experience supporting people through trauma, bereavement, addiction and complex co-morbidity, and works with neurodiversity including ADHD and autism. Elena welcomes LGBTQIA+ clients and aims to create an accepting, non-judgemental space for exploration.
Practical elements of her work include art-informed exercises and Internal Family Systems ideas to access deeper feelings. Her practice offers a flexible mix of talking and active practices so people can build understanding and new ways of coping over time.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Elena lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- ADHD
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Elena names
- Existential Therapy
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How different approaches work online
Existential therapy helps people explore meaning, values and life choices. It encourages honest reflection about personal goals and the worries that get in the way, which can be useful for anxiety, depression and major life transitions.Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It can help with communication problems, intimacy issues and feelings of abandonment by identifying repeated dynamics and offering new ways to relate.
Client-centred therapy places the person’s experience at the heart of sessions. The therapist listens with empathy and follows the client’s pace, helping people to feel heard and to build self-understanding before making changes.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the therapeutic process. The counsellor will work together with the client to choose methods that match their needs, goals and preferences and may adapt techniques as the relationship unfolds.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and visual connection, phone sessions work well for lower bandwidth or when someone prefers not to be on camera, and live chat or text messaging suit shorter check-ins and people who like writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments.
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Questions people ask
What issues does this counsellor help with?
Common concerns include stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, trauma and abuse, addiction, grief, parenting strain, career questions and coping with life changes.
What is the style of therapy like?
The approach blends existential ideas with client-centred listening, attachment work and cognitive tools. Sessions mix reflective conversation with practical exercises such as mindfulness and breath work.
How much clinical experience is there?
The counsellor has six years of professional experience working with a wide range of concerns, including trauma, bereavement, addiction and neurodiversity.
What credentials and location are listed?
Elena holds BACP registration and practises in the United Kingdom.
Which languages are supported and can international clients join?
Sessions are offered in English and Italian, and international clients are accepted.
What formats are sessions offered in?
Therapy can be delivered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging depending on the person’s preference.
How are sessions charged?
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