Mandy Elliott , BACP

Mandy Elliott is a therapeutic counsellor with eight years of experience based in the United Kingdom. She holds BACP registration, the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy credential, and offers support to adults facing a wide range of concerns. Mandy often works with people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression and life changes, and she has a particular interest in women’s issues.

Her approach is grounded in Client-Centred Therapy. Mandy believes people are the experts in their own lives and she aims to build on each person’s strengths. Sessions focus on listening, clear reflection and helping clients find their own solutions rather than prescribing answers.

Mandy also draws on practices from transactional analysis and Gestalt therapy when they suit a person’s needs. Meditation and mindfulness, informed by her personal Buddhist practice, are available as tools to help with grounding, sleep and emotional regulation. These are offered as practical exercises to try between sessions.

She has experience supporting younger adults in higher education, including people aged 16 to 22, and other adults across life stages. Mandy helps people work through relationship tensions, grief, parenting strain, career worries and chronic health challenges in straightforward, compassionate conversation.

Sessions are available in English and can be arranged for video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. The goal is to help clients build confidence, safety with emotions and clearer next steps they can try in daily life.

How Mandy’s approaches work online

Mandy primarily uses Client-Centred Therapy, which means sessions focus on listening carefully and reflecting back what matters to the client. This approach helps with anxiety, depression, relationship strain and building self-worth because it centres on the person’s own goals and resources.

She also draws on elements of transactional analysis and Gestalt when they fit a client’s needs. Transactional analysis can help people notice patterns in communication and roles they repeat, which is useful for relationship and work issues. Gestalt techniques aim to increase awareness of present feelings and bodily sensations, helping with stress, grief and trauma symptoms.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options, try different methods and check in about what helps most. Together they set goals and adapt ways of working to match the client’s needs, pace and preferences.

Online therapy offers practical benefits for people with busy lives or mobility challenges. Video calls are useful for a full face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth or camera use is difficult, and live chat or text-based messaging can be a shorter check-in or a way to communicate if writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around study, work and family commitments while keeping continuity of care with a registered professional.