About Ellen
Ellen Penny-Brookes is a counsellor who helps people manage anxiety, stress, low self-esteem and related worries. She works with adults on concerns such as trauma, grief, relationship difficulties and problems with sleep or eating. Ellen communicates in plain terms and aims to make a first step feel manageable for someone who is worried or unsure about therapy.
Ellen trained in psychodynamic counselling at master's level, and she also holds a postgraduate certificate in person-centred counselling from the University of East Anglia.
Background and approach
She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Her background combines talking therapies that look at current patterns and the early experiences that shape them. In sessions she pays attention to how feelings and relationships affect daily life.
She uses psychodynamic ideas to help people notice repeating patterns and attachment-based thinking to look at how early bonds influence present reactions. Cognitive behavioural tools are used when practical steps or coping strategies are needed. Ellen offers sessions in person and remotely by video, phone or messaging.
Her practice aims to be flexible so people can choose what fits their day. She keeps language straightforward and focuses on building a helpful working relationship. Starting work with Ellen usually involves a short matching process and then arranging sessions that suit the client.
Over time she supports people to understand their feelings, develop coping skills and make clearer choices about relationships and wellbeing.
How Ellen’s approaches work online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current feelings and reactions. Online sessions can help spot repeated patterns in relationships and try new ways of relating to others in everyday life.Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting conversation. This approach helps people feel heard and understood, and it can support work on self-esteem, decision-making and coping with life changes.
Ellen treats finding the right approach as a shared process. She will talk with the client about goals and preferences and adapt methods as therapy progresses. That collaborative planning helps match practical tools and reflective work to what the person needs.
Online work is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and longer therapeutic conversation, phone can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited, and messaging suits shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit sessions around school, work or caregiving commitments and to keep contact between in-person appointments.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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