Elena Ciortescu, NCPS

Elena Ciortescu is a psychotherapist who helps people facing anxiety, depression and life changes. She uses a relational approach that centres on the person rather than quick fixes. Elena speaks English and Romanian and works with clients in the United Kingdom and internationally. She holds NCPS as a credential and has ten years of practice experience.

Elena shapes therapy around each person's needs, combining attachment-based ideas with client-centred listening and cognitive behavioural techniques. She pays attention to how relationships and past experiences affect current feelings. Sessions aim to rebuild a sense of self, resilience and clearer priorities rather than providing one-size-fits-all solutions.

Her work covers a broad range of concerns including stress, grief, trauma and abuse, identity shifts, parenting strain and intimacy issues. She also supports people dealing with ADHD, bipolar, eating and sleeping difficulties, and compassion fatigue. Additional focus areas include abandonment, attachment issues, adoption and foster care, and feelings of emptiness.

Elena has worked in private practice, education and the charity sector. That mix of settings informs a practical, down-to-earth style. She describes therapy as collaborative and curious, with an emphasis on honest conversation and everyday coping tools.

People who choose Elena can expect a calm and thoughtful space to talk things through. She facilitates group work online as well as individual conversation, using structured activities and peer discussion where that is helpful. To start, clients use the site's matching process and then arrange sessions according to the therapist's schedule.

How Elena’s approaches translate to online therapy

Elena draws on attachment-based ideas and cognitive behavioural therapy in her online work. Attachment-based approaches look at how early relationships shape current patterns and help people notice how they relate to others now. This can be useful for intimacy issues, abandonment concerns and communication problems. Cognitive behavioural therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and helps people develop practical strategies for anxiety, low mood and unhelpful habits.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Elena works collaboratively to see which methods suit a person’s goals and preferences. She will discuss options, try things out together and adjust the plan as needs change so the work feels relevant and manageable.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into everyday life, for example by removing travel time and allowing a quicker check-in during a lunch break. The biography indicates she facilitates online group therapy as well as individual work, but confirm the current session options before booking. Many people find that remote sessions help maintain continuity of care and bring therapeutic tools directly into daily routines.