Elena Simona Lazar, BACP

Elena Simona Lazar is a United Kingdom-credentialed therapist with six years of professional experience and a background of more than a decade in nursing. She holds registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), which reflects her commitment to recognised professional practice. Elena works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, relationship and family difficulties, anger, self-esteem, addictions, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, eating concerns, parenting and career challenges, depression, coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, and ADHD, as well as many related areas such as abandonment, attachment issues, blended family dynamics and caregiver stress.

Her approach blends a client-centered stance with Internal Family Systems and systemic perspectives, and she adapts techniques to meet each person’s needs. Over the years she has trained in counselling at Level 4 and explored methods such as IFS, CBT, Systemic Constellations, Transactional Analysis, Gestalt, Voices Dialogue and the Sedona Method, bringing a flexible toolkit to sessions. Drawing on her nursing experience, Elena aims to understand people beyond physical symptoms and to support emotional wellbeing in holistic ways.

In sessions she aims to create an open, non-judgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be explored. Work with her may bring greater clarity about present experience, gentle processing of painful emotions, practical techniques to improve quality of life, insight into repeated patterns, and steps toward healthier relationships with others and with the self. She encourages those considering therapy to take the first step and reach out with any questions, placing clients and their needs at the heart of her practice.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Support

Elena draws on client-centered principles to create a respectful, person-focused setting where the client’s own experience guides the pace and direction of work. This approach supports self-exploration and is helpful for concerns such as low self-esteem, life transitions, and relationship issues.

Internal Family Systems (IFS) is used to help people understand and relate to different internal parts or states. IFS can assist with trauma, anxiety, addictive patterns and conflicts within the self by fostering greater self-leadership and internal cooperation.

Systemic therapy gives attention to relationships and patterns that occur within families and other close systems, making it useful for couple and family difficulties, communication problems, and recurrent relational tensions.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the work itself and Elena treats this as a collaborative process. She will help identify which methods best match a person’s goals, preferences and the issues they bring, and adapt the way she works as understanding grows.

Online therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging offers flexible access to registered professionals and therapists. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, family life and accessibility needs, while still allowing meaningful therapeutic connection and ongoing support.