About Elaine
Elaine Devlin is a counsellor who helps people manage phobias, anxiety, stress and related difficulties. She works with adults who are struggling with low mood, trauma, panic, addiction and problems that affect daily life. Elaine aims to offer a calm, accepting space where people can feel listened to and understood.
Her way of working is collaborative and warm. Sessions focus on talking through current problems, making sense of difficult feelings, and practising ways to cope better day to day.
Background and approach
She draws on several approaches to match each person’s needs rather than using just one fixed method. Elaine has five years of clinical experience and is listed with NCPS. She has personal experience of workplace stress and bullying, which informs her empathy for people facing shame, fear or embarrassment.
She also works with people who have Down syndrome. In sessions she will often use ideas from cognitive behavioural work to spot unhelpful thinking and try practical experiments. She blends this with client-centred listening and some psychodynamic thinking to look at patterns that repeat over time.
Therapy can be short or longer term depending on the issues and goals. Elaine offers video calls, telephone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different needs. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and appointment options are provided.
Approaches online and how they help
Elaine commonly uses client-centred work and cognitive behavioural techniques when working online. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so people feel heard and can explore emotions at their own pace; this helps with low mood, isolation and relationship worries. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions and uses practical exercises to reduce panic, phobias and anxious thinking.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Elaine will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and agree a way forward together. That collaborative planning means the methods used can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, which makes therapy more flexible. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions are handy when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and text messaging lets people reflect between sessions. These options help fit therapy around work, family and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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