Elena Lanza , BACP

Elena Lanza is a compassionate counsellor who supports people navigating distress, loss, and life transitions. She combines warmth and professional insight to help clients make sense of difficult feelings and experiences, offering a reflective space for exploration and practical change. Her work is grounded in empathy and respect, and she encourages each person to bring their whole self to the therapeutic process.

Clients may come seeking help with a specific concern or a deeper understanding of long-standing patterns. Elena offers tailored support aimed at identifying origins of emotional responses and developing new ways of coping. Her clinical experience includes helping people with anxiety, depression, trauma, obsessive-compulsive concerns, sexual and physical abuse, domestic violence survival, addiction, and bereavement. She also brings experience in neurodiversity, working with ADHD and autism and recognising the particular strengths and challenges those differences can involve.

Her practice is inclusive and affirming of diverse identities, including LGBTQIA+ people, and she honours individual backgrounds and stories. Elena draws on a range of therapeutic methods, blending humanistic perspectives, psychodynamic understanding, and cognitive behavioural techniques to respond to each client’s needs. She integrates art-based exercises, mindfulness and breath work to support emotional regulation, and uses parts-based approaches such as Internal Family Systems to explore inner dynamics. She also offers specialised integration work for people processing psychedelic experiences.

Elena holds BACP membership, the UK professional association for counsellors and psychotherapists, and brings six years of clinical experience to her practice. She aims to combine professional skill with compassion to support clients’ growth and healing.