Elena Ciortescu

Elena Ciortescu, NCPS, is a psychotherapist who focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression and emotional overwhelm. She emphasises an approach that centres the person rather than a single method. Her style is warm and down-to-earth, aiming to make difficult conversations feel more manageable.

Elena describes her work as integrative and relational. She blends methods such as attachment-based, client-centred, cognitive behavioural and emotionally-focused therapy to suit each person’s needs. Sessions tend to focus on a person’s values, daily life and relationships rather than only on symptoms.

She has around 10 years of experience across private practice, education and the charity sector. That background means she has worked with people from varied walks of life and with a wide range of problems, including trauma, grief and compassion fatigue. She also supports people with issues linked to identity, sexual orientation and neurodiversity.

Practical concerns often come up in her work, such as sleep, eating, parenting and career stress. Elena pays attention to those everyday pressures while also exploring deeper patterns like attachment, codependency and control issues. Her aim is to help people reconnect with their strengths and sense of self.

Elena offers online group therapy as well as individual sessions. She speaks English and Romanian and works with international clients. To start, people use the site’s matching process to book and schedule sessions.

How Elena’s approaches translate to online therapy

Attachment-based work looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and feelings. Online sessions can help people notice patterns in their close relationships and try different ways of connecting or setting boundaries.

Client-centred therapy focuses on the person’s experience and rhythm. In this approach the counsellor listens closely, reflects what the person says and helps them find their own answers; it suits people who want a supportive, exploratory space.

Cognitive behavioural ideas are practical and task-focused, looking at thoughts, behaviours and small experiments. This approach can help with anxiety, sleep, eating patterns and coping techniques that people can practise between sessions.

Finding the right fit is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and daily demands and together with the client decide what mix of approaches to try. Elena takes a collaborative stance, adjusting methods as needs become clearer.

Check which session formats are currently offered before booking, since the biography specifies online group work and individual sessions but does not list other options. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy day, allow quicker check-ins during work breaks, or reduce travel time. It can also make some therapeutic exercises and written tasks simpler to share and review between meetings.