Elena Harvey-Kummer

Elena Harvey-Kummer is a BACP counsellor who supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, anger, depression and life changes. She also helps with issues such as body image, attachment and communication problems, eating and food-related concerns, and questions about sexuality and life purpose. Elena offers a calm, straightforward style aimed at helping people find practical ways forward.

She works from the belief that each person knows their own story best. Her role is to listen, reflect, and offer tools and perspectives that clients can use between sessions. Conversations are collaborative and paced to suit each person’s needs and comfort.

Elena describes her practice as integrative. She draws on Client-Centred Therapy to build a respectful, collaborative relationship. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is used to spot and reframe unhelpful thinking patterns. She also uses Psychodynamic and Existential ideas to look at how past experiences and questions of meaning affect present life.

Sessions include practical exercises, talking through difficult feelings, and setting small goals to test new ways of coping. She brings coaching techniques when clients want focused, goal-oriented work. The emphasis is on simple, usable changes rather than jargon.

Elena has three years of professional experience in the United Kingdom and works in English. She accepts international clients. To begin, clients follow the site sign-up and matching steps and then arrange sessions according to availability.

How Elena’s approaches translate to online work

Elena uses Client-Centred Therapy to build a collaborative relationship where people feel heard and understood. This approach focuses on empathy and reflecting what matters to the client, which helps when working through feelings about identity, relationships and self-worth.

She also uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to help spot unhelpful thoughts and try small experiments to change them. CBT is practical and task-oriented, which can suit people who want clear steps to manage anxiety, low mood or unhelpful behaviours.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Elena will discuss goals, preferences and how you like to work, then try methods that match those needs. That way the therapy can be adjusted as you learn what helps most.

The biography does not list specific online session formats, so please confirm available formats when booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It can also let people use video or audio options depending on comfort and bandwidth, and makes it simpler to continue work while away from home.