About me
About Me and My Practice
I’m Eliana, a London-based, BACP-registered psychotherapist. I work with people at moments when life has shifted — when something has ended, changed, or no longer makes sense, and familiar ways of being feel unsettled. These moments can bring anxiety, grief, or disorientation, but they can also open space for reflection, meaning, and transformation.
My work is grounded in existential and psychodynamic psychotherapy and informed by trauma-focused practice. I support individuals navigating major life transitions, loss, relational and family challenges, fertility struggles, parenting, migration and cultural displacement, as well as anxiety, depression, neurodivergence, addiction, and the lasting impact of trauma. I offer therapy in both English and Spanish.
Therapy with me is a place to slow down and be met. You do not need to have the right words or a clear story. Together, we gently explore your lived experience — how past relationships, losses, and unspoken expectations shape how you move through the world now. We also make space for the deeper questions that often surface in times of change: Who am I becoming? What has been lost? What still matters? How do I live with uncertainty?
My approach is trauma-informed, attentive to safety, pacing, and choice. Therapy is not about fixing or rushing change, but about allowing understanding to unfold at its own rhythm — with care, curiosity, and respect.
I offer a warm, confidential space where even the parts of your experience that feel difficult, contradictory, or unfinished can be held. You do not have to carry this alone. Together, we can make room for meaning, resilience, and new ways of being to emerge.
I offer therapy specifically for the postcodes: W11, W1, W8, W12, W14 and W2
Ethos & Approach
My work is shaped by an understanding that human suffering does not arise in isolation, but within the lived realities of relationship, history, and the worlds we inhabit. Having been raised in Colombia and lived across Spain, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, and the UK, I am attuned to the experience of living between cultures — to questions of belonging, identity, and the quiet disorientation that can accompany change.
With a background in engineering and finance, alongside a lifelong engagement with art, travel, and culture, I bring both structure and imagination to the therapeutic encounter. Therapy, for me, is not about fixing what is broken, but about creating a space where one can pause, reflect, and come into a more honest relationship with one’s experience.
I meet each person as they are, recognising difference, complexity, and uncertainty as inherent to being human. I welcome clients of all backgrounds and genders and am committed to offering a safe, inclusive, and affirming space. Therapy is an ethical encounter — a place of presence and responsibility — where your experience can unfold, be witnessed, and gradually find meaning in its own time.
Training, qualifications & experience
Qualifications and Expertise
I am a highly trained and experienced therapist with a strong academic and professional foundation:
- Qualified Member of the BACP (No. 407912).
- MA in Psychotherapy and Counselling (Existential Pathway), Regent’s University London.
- several years of training in existential, psychodynamic, and humanistic therapy.
- Foundation Certificate in Psychotherapy and Counselling, Regent’s University London.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, EAFIT University.
- MSc in International Management, King’s College London.
I have worked within the NHS Time to Talk service and the charity sector, supporting individuals through anxiety, depression, and periods of profound difficulty. Alongside this, I have offered long-term, low-cost psychotherapy to people from diverse backgrounds and life circumstances. These experiences have shaped a way of working grounded in attentiveness, ethical care, and respect for each person’s lived reality.
My approach is informed by an understanding that life’s disruptions — whether sudden or quietly accumulated — can unsettle our sense of self and belonging. Therapy becomes a space where these experiences can be met with care, given meaning, and held within a steady, human presence.
Why Work With Me
- A therapy shaped around you
I begin with your story — not a template. Our work is guided by who you are, what you carry, and what feels most alive or uncertain in your life right now. Therapy unfolds at your pace, in a way that honours your uniqueness rather than trying to fit you into fixed ideas. - Flexibility with care
I offer both in-person and online sessions, allowing therapy to meet you where you are — practically as well as emotionally. - A multicultural, lived perspective
Having lived and worked across different countries and cultures, I bring a sensitivity to identity, belonging, and the experience of living between worlds. This global perspective quietly informs our work, especially where questions of home, difference, and selfhood arise.
Member organisations
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred). Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision. Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training. All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
How I Can Help You
Life offers no roadmap, but therapy can provide space to navigate its uncertainties. Whether you’re facing anxiety, depression, trauma, or relationship struggles, our work together is collaborative and tailored to your needs. Through exploration and reflection, we can uncover patterns, confront obstacles, and move toward meaningful change.
I have particular expertise in the trauma of divorce and its emotional aftermath, alongside a breadth of experience in:
- Family and relationships – fertility, bereavement, divorce, and parenting challenges.
- Mental health – anxiety, depression, trauma, and neurodivergence (e.g., ADHD).
- Addiction, migration, and cultural transitions – the complexities of identity, belonging, and adaptation.
My aim is not just to help you overcome challenges but to equip you with the insight and resilience to engage with life more fully.
Therapies offered
Fees
£85.00 - £150.00
Additional information
Concessions are available.
When I work
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Further information
Your First Step Toward Change
The first session is not an assessment to pass, but an encounter — a beginning. It is a space to slow down and attend to what has brought you here, often at a moment when something in life is asking to be spoken, understood, or held differently.
Together, we will explore your concerns at your own pace, listening for what matters most beneath the surface, and sensing whether this space feels safe and supportive for you. There is no obligation to continue beyond this meeting. What matters is that you leave feeling met, respected, and clearer about whether this way of working feels right for you.
