About Helen
Helen Hampton offers approachable, flexible counselling for people facing stress, anxiety, relationship problems, grief and life changes. She is named at the start so readers know who they will be working with. Sessions are plain and straightforward, focused on what is causing distress and what would feel different if those problems eased.
Helen begins by listening and learning how difficulties affect day-to-day life. She asks what has helped or not helped so far and looks for the person’s own strengths.
How Helen works
That helps shape a plan tailored to each person rather than a fixed method that must fit everyone. Her practice includes work with trauma, including post-traumatic stress and complex post-traumatic stress. Helen uses a pluralistic approach, drawing on a range of therapeutic ideas to suit individual needs.
She explains options clearly and chooses what fits each situation together with the person she is supporting. Helen holds BACP, which records her professional registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She has four years of clinical experience and works from the United Kingdom.
Sessions are offered in English and delivered online through several formats. People contact her when they feel stuck after trying to cope alone, when grief or loss is overwhelming, or when anxiety and mood problems make life hard. Helen aims to build a steady working relationship based on empathy, warmth and acceptance.
She helps people draw on their own knowledge and make realistic steps forward.
What Helen works with
The areas below are the ones Helen selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Practical therapeutic approaches for online counselling
Helen uses a pluralistic framework that lets her combine different evidence-based techniques to suit each person. For example, she may use cognitive behavioural ideas to help identify and change unhelpful thinking patterns and routines that keep anxiety or low mood going; this is practical work aimed at small, testable changes.She also draws on person-centred ways of working, which focus on building a warm, accepting relationship and helping the person feel heard. That approach supports self-understanding, emotional processing and longer-term change. Both approaches can be adapted for trauma work, including helping with post-traumatic stress and complex post-traumatic stress symptoms through paced, careful conversations.
Finding the right mix is part of the work together. Helen will discuss options with each person and agree an approach based on their needs, goals and preferences. She treats this as a collaborative process and adjusts the plan as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make counselling more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit into a short break or use less bandwidth, and messaging or live chat can suit people who prefer writing or shorter check-ins. These formats help people fit therapy around work, family and other commitments while keeping the emphasis on useful, practical progress.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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