Elena Simona Lazar, BACP

Elena Simona Lazar is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom. She holds BACP accreditation and brings six years of counselling experience. Elena speaks English and Romanian and offers sessions online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging.

She trained first as a nurse and spent over a decade in healthcare. That background led her to counselling, where she helps people talk about issues such as stress, anxiety, depression and addictions. She also supports people struggling with relationship and family concerns, anger, low self-esteem and life changes.

Elena aims to make sessions calm and straightforward. She listens without judgement and helps people name what they are feeling. Sessions focus on building clarity, exploring painful emotions gently and finding steps people can try between meetings.

Her work draws on client-centred ideas, Internal Family Systems and systemic ways of looking at relationships. She adapts methods to suit each person and their goals rather than using a single fixed plan. This means practical suggestions and emotional exploration often happen together.

Elena works with issues linked to intimacy, body image, parenting strain, caregiver stress, chronic illness and career difficulties. She also supports people dealing with trauma, compassion fatigue and substance misuse. She looks to help people find more confidence, better boundaries and clearer choices.

To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then arrange sessions to fit their schedule. Elena uses a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time, with fees varying by location and therapist availability.

Working with client-centred and systemic approaches online

Elena uses client-centred work to make space for a person's thoughts and feelings. This approach focuses on listening, empathy and helping people name what they feel. It often helps with anxiety, low self-worth and day-to-day stress.

She also draws on Internal Family Systems, a way of understanding inner parts that can hold difficult emotions or beliefs. IFS supports people to relate differently to those parts and can be useful for trauma, shame and patterns that repeat.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Elena will discuss options together and tailor the work to a person's needs, goals and preferences. That way therapy stays collaborative and practical rather than fixed.

Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different lifestyles. Video calls allow a fuller face-to-face feel, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins and messaging helps when someone prefers writing. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caregiving and daily life while keeping the focus on progress and practical steps.