Elaine Bell , BACP

Elaine Bell is a counsellor and counselling supervisor at Healing Connection Place in Lisburn (BT28) who brings extensive practice across the charity sector and private work in Northern Ireland. She is BACP registered and insured - BACP stands for the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - and holds a Foundation Degree in Counselling (2017), an Honours Degree in Counselling and Professional Issues (2020), and a Level 6 Certificate in Counselling Supervision.

Trauma-informed in orientation, she supports people with a wide range of concerns including relationship difficulties, neurodivergence, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, anger management, self-esteem challenges, and spiritual exploration. Her practice is integrative, drawing on existential, psychodynamic, person-centred, and focusing-oriented methods to tailor support to each person’s needs. Elaine works relationally, attending closely to emotional depth, embodied experience, and the personal patterns that shape how people relate to themselves and others.

She believes that each person is the expert on their own life and that many necessary strengths already exist within them; therapy is framed as a collaborative process to help people access and build on those resources. Elaine encourages the courage it takes to seek a more authentic life and aims to support and empower clients through that journey.

Important update effective Monday 14th April 2025 - for new clients she will offer weekly phone, video, and live chat sessions only. Asynchronous messaging will be limited to practical matters such as scheduling or sharing resources; personal journal-style messages will not receive a therapeutic response. This change supports clear boundaries and keeps therapeutic work contained within scheduled sessions. For enquiries: healingconnectionplace@gmail.com.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care with Elaine Bell

Elaine draws on client-centred therapy to create a respectful and accepting space where the client’s perspective leads the work; this approach emphasizes empathy and helps with self-esteem, relationship challenges, and personal growth. She also integrates existential therapy, which explores meaning, choice, and responsibility and can support people facing life transitions, questions about purpose, or deep feelings of uncertainty. In addition she uses psychodynamic ideas to attend to underlying patterns and relational themes that influence current difficulties, which can be useful for understanding recurring relationship problems and emotional patterns.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process and Elaine approaches that choice collaboratively. She works with each person to identify which methods match their needs, goals, and preferences and can adapt techniques over time to suit changing priorities.

Online therapy with Elaine is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, providing flexibility for scheduling around work, family, or mobility needs. These options make it easier to maintain regular weekly sessions and to access therapists from different locations, helping therapy fit into a client’s day-to-day life while supporting continuity of care.