Elaine Bell, BACP

BACP. 8 years of experience. Elaine Bell is a BACP counsellor who works with a wide range of concerns including LGBT issues, grief, anger, self-esteem, ADHD, stress, anxiety, addictions, relationships, family matters, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, parenting, career concerns and depression.

She uses an integrative, relational approach that draws on client-centred therapy, existential ideas, Jungian thinking, mindfulness, and psychodynamic perspectives. Elaine pays attention to emotional depth, bodily experience and the personal patterns that shape how people relate to themselves and others. She describes her role as helping people identify strengths they already have and supporting them to use those strengths in practical ways.

Elaine has worked in both the charity sector and private practice in Northern Ireland. Her training includes a Foundation Degree in Counselling (2017), an Honours Degree in Counselling and Professional Issues (2020), and a Level 6 Certificate in Counselling Supervision. The biography lists eight years of experience working with clients.

Her stated areas of additional focus include ageing and geriatric issues, attachment matters, autism and Asperger syndrome, blended family issues, body image, cancer, caregiver stress, chronic pain and long-term illness, communication problems, disaster-related coping, divorce and separation, forgiveness, intellectual disability and isolation or loneliness.

Elaine notes a trauma-aware stance and emphasises working relationally. She aims to keep therapeutic work within scheduled sessions and indicates a preference for weekly phone, video and live chat sessions for new clients, with asynchronous messaging used only for practical matters such as scheduling or resource sharing.

Online counselling approaches and practical arrangements