Elinor Taylor, BACP
Elinor Taylor offers a client-centred style of counselling that starts with the person rather than the problem.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and Abuse
- +11 more
About Elinor
Elinor Taylor offers a client-centred style of counselling that starts with the person rather than the problem. She focuses on listening carefully and letting the client lead the pace and priorities of sessions. Elinor uses empathy and direct attention to help people feel understood and begin to make small, manageable changes.
Elinor combines practical, evidence-informed techniques with a warm human approach. She draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people manage anxiety, low mood, and relationship challenges.
Background and approach
Sessions often include learning coping skills, noticing patterns of thought and feeling, and practising new ways of relating to oneself and others. She has particular experience supporting people facing issues around relationships, intimacy, grief and loss, eating concerns, trauma and abuse, self-esteem and the challenges of coping with life changes. ADHD, stress and LGBT-related concerns are also within her focus areas.
Elinor brings four years of practice experience and holds BACP registration, which she lists among her credentials. Elinor works with adults in the United Kingdom and conducts sessions in English. She offers flexible online formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging.
Her practice uses a subscription model for sessions which can be cancelled at any time. Many people begin therapy uncertain where to start. Elinor supports each person in finding the right focus and pace.
She encourages practical steps as well as reflection, so change can feel possible and steady.
Registration
| Body | Registration number | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| BACP | 394310 | November 2026 |
Registration details are as listed on the counsellor's public profile. You can check any number with the registering body.
Sessions and payment
Sessions are held online through our partner platform, by video, phone or messaging depending on the counsellor.
Costs are shown on the partner platform before you commit. If cost is a concern, ask about reduced-fee options.
Focus areas and approaches
What Elinor works with
Everything Elinor lists, in their own terms.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Grief
- Eating disorders
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Elinor lists
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
Online support
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours. It involves noticing unhelpful thinking, trying small behavioural experiments and learning coping skills. CBT can help with anxiety, low mood and managing eating or stress-related difficulties.
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, or DBT, teaches practical skills for managing intense emotions, distress and relationship patterns. It includes strategies for emotional regulation, tolerating distress and improving communication, which can be useful for people experiencing strong reactions or repeated conflict.
Choosing the right approach is often part of therapy itself. The counsellor will work collaboratively to identify methods that match the client’s goals, preferences and what comes up in sessions. This means techniques can be adapted over time rather than fixed from the start.
Online sessions using video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging make fitting therapy into daily life easier. Video calls allow visual connection, phone sessions suit quieter audio-only conversations, live chat is helpful for shorter focused exchanges, and messaging supports ongoing check-ins and reflection between meetings. These options provide flexibility so people can pick the format that fits their routines and needs.
Frequently asked
What issues does Elinor help with?
She works with relationship and intimacy problems, trauma and abuse, grief, eating concerns, anxiety and depression, and many related issues such as self-esteem, stress and ADHD.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is client-centred and collaborative, combined with practical techniques from CBT, DBT and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to address thoughts, feelings and relational patterns.
What experience does she have?
She has four years of counselling experience supporting adults with a broad range of emotional and relationship concerns.
Where is she based and what credentials does she hold?
She is based in the United Kingdom and lists BACP among her professional credentials.
Which languages are offered and can she see clients abroad?
Sessions are offered in English. She does not accept international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can take place via video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How are sessions priced?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling sessions according to therapist availability.
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