Eirini Anane-Crane

Eirini Anane-Crane is a psychotherapist and mental health crisis services manager based in the United Kingdom with 10 years of experience. She holds an MA in counseling and psychotherapy and has developed her clinical expertise through academic research and professional practice across multiple sectors.

Her work includes face-to-face and helpline or online counseling for individuals and groups, and she has particular experience supporting people with perinatal mental health needs, depression, past abuse and trauma, stress and anxiety, motivation and self-esteem, confidence issues, and cultural and relational difficulties.

Training in integrative approaches informs her practice, which combines a person-centered core with trauma-informed methods and an understanding of attachment theories, keeping the therapeutic relationship central to the therapeutic work. She also brings clinical leadership experience from mental health crisis services and from peer and survivor-led mental health services.

Alongside clinical work, Eirini works as a clinical supervisor and development coach for volunteers and teaches as a lecturer in counseling and psychology. She has provided counseling support around pregnancy, miscarriage, and terminations to women and families, and has used play therapy with children under 15 to support early emotional well-being.

A significant area of focus for her practice is culturally appropriate therapy, including BAME-related therapy. She has also delivered bespoke counseling services within the criminal justice system to support ex-offenders on probation.

Eirini believes the client is the expert in their own experience and works collaboratively to find what best suits each person. She holds that people can overcome difficulties when the right conditions are present and views the therapeutic relationship as a healing element in itself. Taking the first step to seek support is seen as the start of positive change, and she feels privileged to take that journey with clients.