Eleanor — Integrative Counsellor in Bristol
At a Glance
- Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)
- Diploma in Integrative Counselling · Currently completing MA and Advanced Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling (The Minster Centre)
- Individual counselling · Integrative approach (Relational, Attachment, Psychodynamic, Body Therapy, Trauma-Informed, Intersectionality)
- Face-to-face in Bristol (Westbury-on-Trym) · Online and telephone UK-wide
- Adults (18+) · LGBTQIA+ affirming · Neurodiverse-welcoming · EAP clients
- £65 per session
- Tuesdays and Wednesdays — daytime
- Free 15-minute consultation — no commitment, no pressure
Eleanor’s Approach
“Most of all I want to build a trusting relationship, which feels safe, to explore what’s brought you to therapy. Being heard and genuinely responded to within a therapeutic relationship is hugely powerful — it can help us feel more anchored in ourselves, and enrich our relationships with those around us.”
Counselling in Bristol — About Eleanor
Something has brought you here. Perhaps it is something that has been quietly present for a long time — a pattern you keep noticing, a feeling that doesn’t quite go away, a sense that something needs to change. Perhaps it is something more immediate. Either way, you do not have to face it alone.
Eleanor is a qualified integrative counsellor based in Bristol, offering face-to-face counselling in Westbury-on-Trym and online and telephone counselling to individuals across the UK. She holds a Diploma in Integrative Counselling and is currently nearing completion of her MA and Advanced Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling at The Minster Centre — one of Europe’s leading integrative psychotherapy training institutions. She is a Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
Eleanor brings seven years of therapeutic experience across NHS settings, third sector organisations, and private practice. This breadth has given her a deep understanding of different client needs and the flexibility to adapt her approach accordingly. She is warm, authentic, and genuinely curious — and she creates a space where you can take your time, explore at your own pace, and feel genuinely responded to.
Background & Experience
Eleanor’s integrative approach is grounded in the belief that the therapeutic relationship itself is the foundation for change and growth. She views counselling as a collaborative process — one where clients can begin to explore their experiences, understand patterns from the past, and discover new ways of being in the present.
Having worked across NHS settings, third sector organisations, and private practice over seven years, Eleanor has developed a nuanced understanding of the many different ways people experience difficulty — and the many different things they need from therapy. This breadth informs the flexibility and attentiveness she brings to each individual she works with.
Eleanor is particularly interested in how different aspects of identity — age, race, class, sexuality, gender, and more — intersect and shape our experience of ourselves and our relationships with others. She is committed to working in a non-discriminatory, affirmative way, and welcomes clients from all backgrounds and identities. She offers LGBTQIA+ affirming counselling in Bristol and online, and works in a neurodiverse-welcoming way.
Eleanor currently supports clients through EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) arrangements and welcomes workplace referrals alongside private clients. She engages in regular professional supervision and is committed to ongoing development — her advanced training at The Minster Centre reflects a deep investment in the quality and depth of her therapeutic practice.
Therapeutic Approaches
Eleanor works from a carefully integrated framework drawing on six therapeutic approaches. Rather than applying a single method, she draws on what is most useful for each individual — keeping the therapeutic relationship at the centre throughout.
Relational Therapy
At the heart of Eleanor’s practice is a relational foundation — paying close attention to what emerges between therapist and client in the room. The therapeutic relationship itself becomes a lens through which to understand inner worlds and process aspects of the past. Relational therapy in Bristol and online with Eleanor offers a space where how you relate — to yourself and to others — can be explored directly and with care.
Attachment Theory
Attachment theory explores how our earliest relationships shape our expectations of others, our emotional lives, and the patterns we carry into adult relationships. Understanding these early relational templates — and how they continue to influence us — can be profoundly clarifying. Eleanor draws on attachment-based approaches to help clients understand the roots of their relational patterns and develop a more secure sense of themselves.
Psychodynamic Therapy
Eleanor integrates psychodynamic thinking to help clients understand what may have been needed but missing in early relationships, and the ways we have learned to manage anxiety and difficult emotions. This approach explores unconscious patterns and defences — bringing them into awareness within the safety of the therapeutic relationship so that clients can begin to understand themselves more deeply and make different choices.
Body Therapy
Eleanor works with bodily experience as a route into emotional understanding — attending to sensations, tensions, and physical responses that carry information about our inner world. This is particularly valuable when words do not fully capture what is being experienced, or when working with trauma, where the body often holds what the mind struggles to articulate. Body therapy in Bristol and online offers a gentler, more somatic dimension to the therapeutic work.
Trauma-Informed Practice
Trauma-informed practice runs through all of Eleanor’s counselling work. Understanding how trauma impacts both mind and body, she creates a therapeutic environment grounded in safety, predictability, and care. Eleanor is sensitive to the many different ways trauma can manifest — including in the therapeutic relationship itself — and works at a pace that feels genuinely manageable. Trauma counselling in Bristol and online with Eleanor is available to adults across the UK.
Intersectionality
Eleanor brings particular attention to how different aspects of identity — race, class, age, sexuality, gender, disability, and more — intersect and shape our experiences of ourselves, our relationships, and the wider world. She offers identity counselling in Bristol and online that is genuinely attentive to the social and cultural dimensions of individual experience, including racial identity and the specific pressures that come with navigating multiple, sometimes conflicting, aspects of who we are.
Areas of Focus
Eleanor offers integrative counselling in Bristol and online and telephone counselling across the UK. The following are areas she works with regularly and has specific experience in.
Anxiety and depression
If anxiety has been making everyday life feel harder — whether through panic, social anxiety, persistent worry, or physical symptoms — or if low mood has left you feeling disconnected or without motivation, counselling in Bristol or online can offer a space to understand what is driving it. Eleanor offers anxiety counselling and depression counselling face-to-face in Bristol and online across the UK.
Trauma
Eleanor has substantial experience working with individuals who have experienced trauma, using trauma-informed approaches that prioritise safety, pacing, and the development of coping resources. Trauma counselling in Bristol and online with Eleanor is never rushed — the pace is always led by you. Online trauma counselling is available across the UK.
Relationship issues
Difficult dynamics in personal, family, romantic, or professional relationships — patterns that keep repeating, communication that breaks down, or the particular loneliness of feeling unseen by those closest to you. Eleanor’s relational and attachment-informed approach makes her particularly well placed to work with relationship difficulties. Relationship counselling online and in Bristol is available for adults across the UK.
Bereavement and grief
Grief counselling in Bristol and online with Eleanor offers a space to bring whatever loss looks like for you — whether recent or long-standing, expected or sudden. Bereavement is not only the loss of a person: it can be the loss of a relationship, a sense of identity, or a version of how life was supposed to be. There is no timetable.
Life transitions
Major life changes — relationship endings, career shifts, health challenges, retirement, or a significant shift in sense of self — can leave you needing a space to make sense of where you are. Eleanor works with adults navigating transitions of all kinds through individual counselling in Bristol and online.
Identity exploration
Questions of identity, belonging, and sense of self — including racial identity, sexual identity, gender identity, and the experience of intersecting identities — can be among the most significant things people bring to counselling. Eleanor creates a genuinely affirming and non-judgmental space for exploring identity in all its dimensions. LGBTQIA+ affirming counselling in Bristol and online is available to adults across the UK.
Self-esteem and confidence
Chronic self-doubt, negative self-beliefs, or difficulty feeling deserving of care and support are among the most common things people bring to counselling. Eleanor works with individuals to develop a more grounded, compassionate relationship with themselves through integrative counselling in Bristol and online.
Stress and overwhelm
The particular exhaustion of chronic overload — whether from work, caregiving, or simply the accumulation of too much — can leave little room for anything else. Eleanor supports individuals navigating stress and burnout through counselling in Bristol and online, including those accessing support through EAP arrangements.
Older adults
Eleanor brings particular sensitivity to the experiences of older adults — including the generational context that shapes how people of different ages relate to asking for support, and the specific challenges of later life. She works with older adults navigating grief, health challenges, identity, and life transition through counselling in Bristol and online.
Sessions with Eleanor
Eleanor offers face-to-face counselling at her practice on the High Street in Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol, and online and telephone counselling to individuals across the UK. Sessions are available on Tuesdays and Wednesdays during the day.
Eleanor also works with clients accessing counselling through EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) arrangements, and welcomes referrals from workplace wellbeing programmes alongside private clients.
Sessions are 50 minutes. Eleanor works with individuals on either a short-term or longer-term basis depending on what you are bringing and what feels right. Whether you are looking for focused support around a specific issue or a longer period of exploratory counselling, Eleanor will work with you to find a pace and structure that fits.
Sessions are confidential. There are limited circumstances in which this may need to change — for example, if there is a serious risk of harm to you or others. Eleanor will explain these clearly before any work begins.
Location
Face-to-face: High Street, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol BS9
Online and telephone: UK-wide
Eleanor offers face-to-face counselling in Westbury-on-Trym and online and telephone counselling to individuals based anywhere in the UK. If you are in or near Bristol, the following gives you a sense of how long it typically takes to reach Westbury-on-Trym by the fastest available transport.
| Bristol city centre | 15 mins |
| Clifton | 8 mins |
| Redland | 8 mins |
| Henleaze | 5 mins |
| Filton | 12 mins |
| Bradley Stoke | 15 mins |
| Portishead | 20 mins |
| Nailsea | 20 mins |
| Clevedon | 25 mins |
| Thornbury | 25 mins |
Journey times show how long it takes to reach Westbury-on-Trym by the fastest available transport.
Eleanor’s face-to-face counselling is particularly convenient for clients based in Bristol city centre, Clifton, and Redland. Online and telephone counselling is available to anyone across the UK.
Fees
- Individual sessions: £65 per session
As part of Hope Therapy’s team of 90+ qualified counsellors, Eleanor is matched to clients where there is a strong therapeutic fit. Counselling in Bristol and online with Hope Therapy starts from £65 — significantly more accessible than many comparable practices in the area.
Book a Free Consultation
If you are looking for a counsellor in Bristol or would like to access online or telephone counselling from anywhere in the UK, a free 15-minute consultation is a good place to start. There is no commitment and no pressure — just a chance to ask questions and find out whether Eleanor is the right fit for you.
Hope Therapy’s team is also available by phone 24 hours a day if you would prefer to speak to someone before booking.
Book your free consultation: https://calendly.com/hopetherapy/15-minute-consultation
More Info
| Qualifications | Diploma in Integrative Counselling (L4). Currently completing: MA and Advanced Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling, The Minster Centre (in progress) |
| Professional membership | Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) |
| NCPS | Hope Therapy & Counselling Services is an Organisational Member of the National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society (NCPS) |
| Services | Individual counselling · EAP counselling |
| Therapeutic approaches | Relational Therapy · Attachment Theory · Psychodynamic Therapy · Body Therapy · Trauma-Informed Practice · Intersectionality |
| Session format | Face-to-face (Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol) · Online (Google Meet) · Telephone |
| Session length | 50 minutes |
| Availability | Tuesdays and Wednesdays — daytime |
| Fee | £65 per session |
| Venue | High Street, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol BS9 |
| Languages | English |
| Last reviewed | April 2026 |
| Booking | https://calendly.com/hopetherapy/15-minute-consultation |
Further Areas Eleanor Works With
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- Anxiety counselling Bristol and online
- Attachment issues — counselling online
- Bereavement counselling Bristol and online
- Body therapy Bristol and online
- Burnout counselling online
- Depression counselling Bristol and online
- EAP counselling Bristol and online
- Grief counselling Bristol and online
- Health anxiety counselling online
- Identity counselling Bristol — racial identity and intersectionality
- Life transitions counselling Bristol and online
- LGBTQIA+ affirming counselling Bristol and online
- Low mood counselling online
- Low self-confidence counselling online
- Low self-esteem counselling Bristol and online
- Older adults counselling Bristol and online
- Panic attacks counselling online
- Personal growth counselling online
- Psychodynamic counselling Bristol and online
- Racial identity counselling Bristol
- Relationship difficulties — individual counselling Bristol and online
- Relational therapy Bristol and online
- Social anxiety counselling Bristol
- Stress counselling Bristol and online
- Trauma counselling Bristol and online
- Women’s counselling Bristol and online
- Work-related stress counselling online
- Listing ID: 1202
- Type of Support: Counselling
- Types of Counselling: Adults (18+)
- Type of Session: In Person, Online (Via Zoom & Skype), Phone
- Availability: Daytime