Elaine Griffith , BACP

Elaine Griffith is a counsellor with seven years' experience who blends humanistic and integrative methods to meet individual needs. She is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and works from a person-centred outlook. Elaine aims to create a calm, non-judgemental space where people can talk about what is worrying them and begin to make sense of painful feelings.

She helps people identify areas of life they want to change and supports them in choosing manageable steps. Sessions focus on clear goals and a practical plan tailored to each person. Elaine guides conversations about anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, addiction and relationship concerns, and looks for the root causes of distress rather than only treating surface symptoms.

Her work draws on attachment-based ideas, cognitive behavioural techniques and psychodynamic thinking, along with mindfulness and solution-focused tools. These approaches are used flexibly so sessions fit the person, not the other way round. Elaine describes therapy as a shared journey where honesty and commitment bring the most progress.

People can expect reflective listening, gentle challenge and practical strategies to try between sessions. She also supports issues linked to self-esteem, parenting pressures, career decisions and coping with life changes. Elaine values the chance to walk alongside people as they make changes and build more stable coping skills.

Elaine welcomes work on intimacy-related concerns, boundaries, obsessions and compulsions, panic and phobias, and the emotional fallout of divorce or domestic violence. Her aim is to help people find clearer direction, greater emotional balance and more workable day-to-day coping.

How Elaine’s approaches translate to online therapy

Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in close relationships and on how early bonds affect current trust and intimacy. Online sessions use conversations to notice those patterns, name them and practise new ways of relating that reduce anxiety in relationships.

Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and test them with real-life experiments. In online sessions CBT often involves setting short exercises, tracking moods or trying small behavioural changes between meetings to see what helps.

Mindfulness-based techniques teach simple attention and breathing practices to lower stress and steady sudden emotions. These can be guided in a call or sent as short written exercises to use during the week.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Elaine will talk with each person about their goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they choose methods to try and adjust them as learning happens so the plan fits the person’s life and needs.

Online formats offer flexibility for busy schedules and for people who live far from services. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions can be a good option if bandwidth or being on camera is difficult. Live chat and text messaging suit shorter check-ins, brief reflections, or people who prefer typing to talking. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and to try techniques between sessions.