Elena Ciortescu, NCPS

Elena Ciortescu is a psychotherapist who uses a relational, integrative approach to help people facing anxiety, depression and emotional overwhelm. She works with individuals who feel shaken by life changes or identity shifts and helps them reconnect with what matters to them. Elena draws on different methods rather than offering one fixed programme. She aims to be down-to-earth and compassionate in sessions.

Elena shapes therapy around each person’s needs and values. She mixes practical tools with conversations about meaning and relationships. That might include noticing unhelpful thinking patterns, exploring attachment experiences, or practising mindful ways to handle stress.

Her background includes ten years in independent practice plus experience in education and the charity sector. Those roles involved supporting people from varied backgrounds and life stages. Elena uses that experience to offer straightforward, everyday strategies alongside deeper emotional work.

Sessions are conversational and paced to each person. Elena explains ideas plainly and helps clients try out different ways of coping between meetings. She also runs online group therapy that uses structured activities and peer discussion to build skills and support.

Elena is registered with NCPS and works from the United Kingdom. She offers therapy in English and Romanian and sees clients internationally. To start, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.

How Elena’s approaches translate to online work

Elena commonly draws on Attachment-Based Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in her practice. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current ways of relating and can help with intimacy issues, trust and abandonment fears. Cognitive behavioural work focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and trying different behaviours to reduce anxiety and improve mood.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Elena will work together with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals and preferences. That means checking in about what helps, trying approaches in session, and adjusting the plan as needed so it feels useful and realistic.

The practical benefits of online therapy include fitting sessions into a busy week and cutting travel time. Online group work can also make peer learning easier for those who find in-person groups hard to attend. The original biography does not specify which remote formats are offered, so confirm the current session options before booking. Registered and accredited professionals like Elena can help tailor online sessions to your day-to-day life and make therapy more accessible.