Elena Harvey-Kummer, BACP

Elena Harvey-Kummer is a UK-based therapist registered with the BACP - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - and has three years of professional experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, grief, and challenges with self-esteem, confidence, and motivation.

She works from the view that each person is the expert in their own story and already possesses strengths that can be used to navigate life’s difficulties. Her role is to offer compassionate support, practical tools, and gentle guidance as clients take steps toward a more meaningful and satisfying life.

Her practice is integrative, drawing on a range of evidence-based methods so work can be tailored to individual needs. She aims to provide a calm space for exploring thoughts and feelings, gaining insight into patterns, and trying out new ways of thinking and behaving.

Elena incorporates approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help reframe unhelpful thought patterns, Client-Centered Therapy to build a collaborative therapeutic relationship, Psychodynamic Therapy to explore how past experience influences current behaviour, Existential Therapy to support meaning-making and personal agency, and Solution-Focused techniques and coaching to encourage practical, lasting change.

Her areas of focus include stress, anxiety, grief, self-esteem, coaching, anger, depression, and coping with life changes. She also works with issues related to abandonment and attachment, body image, communication and control problems, eating and food-related concerns, family difficulties, forgiveness, guilt and shame, isolation and loneliness, life purpose, men’s issues, mood disorders, self-love, and sexuality. If her approach resonates, she invites prospective clients to reach out to explore how they might work together.