Elena works in private practice and also lectures on the Counselling Psychology Doctoral programme at Roehampton University. In addition to this Elena co-facilitates the London Regional IPA Group with her colleague Dr Kate Hefferon. The London IPA group is a research group that meets regularly to support students and researchers who are using IPA at many different levels and from many different fields of applied psychology and other disciplines. Elena has considerable experience in conducting research using IPA, teaching, supervising and examining masters and doctoral level research using IPA.