Elena Ciortescu, NCPS

Elena Ciortescu works from a relational, person-centred stance to help people manage anxiety, stress, low mood and identity shifts. She uses straightforward conversation to explore what feels out of balance and to discover practical steps forward. Elena is NCPS credentialed and practises in the United Kingdom. She speaks English and Romanian.

Elena focuses on the everyday effects of emotional overwhelm. She helps people who are coping with grief, relationship problems, compassion fatigue, eating or sleeping struggles, and changes at work or in family life. She also supports people dealing with trauma, abandonment, attachment concerns and issues linked to neurodiversity such as autism and Asperger syndrome.

Her approach draws on attachment-based ideas, cognitive behavioural techniques and emotionally focused work while keeping the person’s own experience central. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented when needed. Practical tools and simple experiments between sessions are commonly used to test out new ways of responding to difficult feelings.

Elena has around ten years of experience across private practice, education and the charity sector. That background means she is used to working with people from varied situations and cultural contexts. She also offers online group sessions that mix structured exercises with peer discussion and shared learning.

People can expect a warm, steady presence in the room. Elena aims to create a calm space for honest talk, clearer thinking and gradual change. To begin, she asks a few questions to match goals and plans a path that fits each person’s needs.

Therapeutic approaches for online work and how they help

Elena commonly draws on attachment-based work to look at how early relationship patterns affect current feelings and reactions; this helps when trust, closeness or repeated relational patterns cause distress. She also uses cognitive behavioural therapy or CBT to identify unhelpful thought and behaviour patterns and to practise small, practical changes that reduce symptoms like anxiety and low mood. Emotionally focused ideas are used to name and track strong feelings in the moment and to build clearer emotional communication in close relationships.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Elena works collaboratively with each person to choose which methods suit their goals, values and daily life. That may mean trying a CBT strategy for a few weeks, then shifting to attachment-based exploration as new issues come up.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring responsibilities and travel. Video is useful for a fuller conversation, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat lets people check in between sessions, and messaging supports brief updates or ongoing coaching-style contact. These options give flexibility so therapy can fit into a busy life.