Mandy Elliott, BACP

Mandy Elliott is a therapeutic counsellor and a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She has eight years of professional experience and aims to help people who are facing stress, anxiety, depression and life changes. Mandy often works with adults and younger adults, including those in higher education aged 16–22. Her practice emphasises listening and collaboration. Mandy treats each person as the expert on their own life and looks for strengths to build on. She draws on person-centred ideas alongside elements from transactional analysis and Gestalt approaches to shape sessions around the individual. Mandy’s background includes a long personal engagement with Buddhist meditation and mindfulness, and she brings those practices into work when they suit a client’s goals. She uses simple, practical tools to help with sleep, coping, managing anger, and building self-worth. People come to her for help with relationships, family problems, grief, parenting strains, midlife questions, chronic illness and pain, and issues such as guilt, shame or loneliness. She also supports those dealing with trauma, abuse and post-traumatic stress through steady, paced conversations. Mandy aims to create a non-judgemental space where clients can talk things through and slowly make changes that matter to them. She encourages small steps and clear goals, and works alongside each person to find approaches that fit their life.

How Mandy's approaches translate to online work

Mandy uses a client-centred approach that focuses on understanding each person's experience and goals. In practice this means the therapist listens carefully, reflects back concerns, and helps clients find their own solutions; this style suits issues like anxiety, depression and life transitions. She also draws on elements of transactional analysis, which looks at communication patterns and roles people take in relationships, useful for improving communication and handling blended family or relationship difficulties. Mindfulness and meditation practices inform her work too, offering simple attention and breathing techniques to help with stress, sleep and emotional regulation. Choosing the right way of working is a shared task. Mandy will discuss different methods and try things out together, adjusting what she uses to match your needs, goals and preferences. That collaborative stance means therapy can shift as progress is made. If you are considering online therapy, confirm the session formats available before booking as the biography did not list specific formats. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. It can also make it simpler to continue therapy while living abroad, since she accepts international clients.