Elena Simona LazarBACP

Elena Simona Lazar is a counsellor who brings six years of experience working with people facing stress, anxiety and relationship strain. She is BACP registered, and she offers help in English and Romanian. Her background as a nurse for over a decade shapes her practical, person-focused way of working.

She aims to make sessions straightforward and down to earth. Elena creates a calm space where clients can talk about difficult feelings without judgement. She focuses on building clarity about what someone is feeling and thinking, and on practical steps to make everyday life easier.

Her approach draws on Client-Centred Therapy, Internal Family Systems and Systemic Therapy, used flexibly to suit each person. In practice this means listening closely, helping people notice patterns, and exploring different parts of a person’s inner world when that helps.

Elena works with a wide range of concerns including depression, addictions, trauma and abuse, intimacy issues, parenting worries and career stress. She also supports people with body image, grief, chronic illness stress and compassion fatigue. Sessions may cover coping strategies, communication skills and ways to rebuild confidence.

She describes therapy as a collaborative process. She helps people find their own resources and supports them in testing small changes between sessions. The focus is on gentle exploration, practical tools and strengthening how someone relates to themselves and others.

How her approaches can guide online work

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on a respectful, listening approach where the client leads the conversation and the counsellor reflects what matters most. It helps when someone needs to feel heard and to build self-understanding.

Internal Family Systems looks at different parts inside a person - for example a critical part or a fearful part - and helps them relate to those parts with curiosity rather than blame. This can be useful for issues like anxiety, shame or patterns that repeat in relationships.

Systemic Therapy examines relationships and patterns across a family or wider system to spot how interactions keep problems going. It can help with parenting concerns, blended family issues and habitual communication problems.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Elena will discuss the different ways of working and help decide what fits the client’s goals and preferences. That choice is collaborative and can change as therapy progresses.

Practical benefits of online therapy include fitting sessions into a busy day, cutting travel time and allowing shorter check-ins when needed. The biography does not list the exact session formats available, so confirm the options before booking. Many people find online sessions make it easier to manage therapy alongside work, parenting and other daily demands.