Elaine Campbell, BACP

Elaine Campbell has 15 years of counselling experience in the United Kingdom and holds BACP accreditation. She helps people facing big life shifts, relationship breakups, addictions, and periods of low mood. Elaine brings a respectful and sensitive manner to sessions and adapts to each person’s circumstances.

Elaine uses a straightforward, human approach in the room. She listens first, then works with clients to set clear, practical goals. Sessions often focus on understanding what’s causing distress and finding manageable steps to change daily patterns.

Her work includes support for grief, trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, and intimacy-related concerns. She also helps people with parenting stress, self-esteem struggles, career uncertainty, and coping with ageing or chronic illness. Elaine addresses both addiction and co-occurring issues such as codependency and communication problems.

Therapeutic methods she draws on include client-centred listening, exploring meaning and choice through existential approaches, and simple mindfulness practices to reduce overwhelm. These are used to help people gain perspective and practical coping skills.

Sessions are tailored and flexible to fit different needs. Elaine aims to work collaboratively so people feel understood and can move forward at a pace that suits them.

How Elaine's approaches work online

Elaine draws on client-centred counselling to place the person’s experience at the heart of sessions. This means she listens carefully, reflects what she hears, and helps clients decide what matters most to work on. It suits people who need a supportive space to talk through problems and make practical changes.

She also uses elements of existential therapy to help people explore meaning, choice, and values when life feels uncertain. This approach can be helpful for clients facing midlife questions, career crossroads, or grief. Mindfulness techniques are used alongside these approaches to help calm the mind and manage stress in the moment, with short exercises that are easy to practise between sessions.

Finding the best approach is part of the work together. Elaine will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels helpful, then adapt methods over time. That collaborative process means people can try different ways of working and keep what helps most.

Online sessions offer practical benefits. Video calls let people use visual cues and keep a stronger sense of connection. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when a quieter, less visual check-in is preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for short updates, quick check-ins, or when someone wants to reflect in writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family, or mobility needs.