Elaine Fyffe, BACP

Elaine Fyffe is a humanistic person-centred counsellor with 14 years of professional experience. She works in the United Kingdom and focuses on supporting people through stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, parenting concerns and depression. Elaine speaks English and uses a warm, encouraging approach to help people find their own strengths.

Elaine believes that each person knows their own story best and brings that perspective into sessions. She aims to create a calm space where people can talk through what matters most to them and make sense of difficult feelings. The emphasis is on listening and on helping people recognise their own resources.

Her practice also covers attachment difficulties, body image concerns and codependency. Elaine helps people facing life changes linked to cancer, bereavement and seasonal affective disorder. Workplace issues, communication problems and feelings of isolation are further areas she addresses.

She supports people working through guilt, shame, forgiveness and questions about life purpose. Women’s issues and self-love are among the themes she explores with clients. Elaine uses straightforward conversations to help people build practical coping strategies.

Sessions are collaborative, paced to the individual and focused on small steps that add up to change. She encourages parents who feel overwhelmed to explore manageable approaches to daily pressures. Over time Elaine helps people notice shifts that bring more stability and hope.

Practical therapeutic approaches and online sessions

Elaine uses humanistic and person-centred ways of working that focus on the person's own experience. Person-centred counselling means the counsellor listens deeply and reflects what is said to help a person make sense of feelings and choices. This approach suits people who want a supportive space to talk and to build their sense of agency.

She also draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help with specific problems like anxiety, depression and grief. These techniques often involve learning simple coping skills, noticing patterns of thought and behaviour, and practising new ways of responding to stress or difficult emotions. The aim is to give practical tools alongside empathic listening.

Finding the right approach is a shared process. Elaine will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences, and together they will decide which ways of working make the most sense. That collaborative decision can change as therapy progresses to reflect what is helping most.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can fit short check-ins or those who prefer not to use video. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, childcare or travel.