About Me

Welcome — I’m Eliana.

I am a London-based, BACP-registered psychotherapist, working from an existential and psychodynamic perspective. I support individuals who are navigating profound transitions, losses, and questions of identity — often at moments when life no longer fits the shape it once had, or when past experiences resurface and ask to be understood.

I offer therapy in both English and Spanish, and I work with clients from diverse cultural backgrounds, including those navigating migration, bicultural identity, and life between worlds.

My clinical work is deeply informed by lived experience. I was raised in Colombia and have lived and worked across Spain, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, and the UK. Migration, cultural displacement, and repeated beginnings and endings have shaped not only my life, but my sensitivity to what it means to belong, to grieve what is left behind, and to rebuild a sense of self in unfamiliar terrain. These experiences also inform my trauma-informed understanding of how disruption, loss, and instability can shape the nervous system, relationships, and sense of safety over time.

Before retraining as a psychotherapist, I worked for many years in engineering and finance. I understand the pressures of high-performance environments, identity shaped by achievement, and the quiet cost of carrying responsibility while feeling internally disconnected. My transition into psychotherapy was not a straight line, but a response to life experiences that demanded reflection, meaning-making, and emotional truth — including an awareness of how unprocessed stress and trauma can become embedded in how we live and relate.

Alongside professional transitions, I have lived through fertility challenges, divorce, and the complexities of becoming — and being — a mother to two young daughters. These experiences have deepened my understanding of grief, resilience, ambivalence, and the emotional weight of care, responsibility, and love. They also inform my trauma-informed work with clients navigating parenthood, separation, identity shifts, relational loss, and the longer-term impact of relational and developmental trauma.