About Helen
Helen Hovsepian is a California licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, trauma, addiction, relationship issues, and low self-esteem. Helen speaks Spanish and accepts international clients.
She invites people to take the first step toward change at their own pace. Helen focuses on building trust and a nonjudgmental space where clients can talk about difficult feelings. She helps people who feel stuck to name what matters and take small steps toward change.
How Helen works
Sessions emphasize listening first, then practical ways to cope with day-to-day struggles. Her approach blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral techniques and somatic attention to the body. She also draws on psychodynamic ideas to understand repeated patterns and solution-focused tools to set clear, achievable goals.
This mix lets her match the method to each person's needs rather than using one fixed style. Helen often addresses guilt, shame, life purpose, and post-traumatic stress alongside more common concerns. She works collaboratively, helping clients decide when to address painful memories and when to focus on present coping skills.
Progress is paced to the individual and centered on realistic steps. Practical options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Therapy uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire helps connect people to scheduling options that suit them.
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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.
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Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How Helen’s approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person's experience. Online sessions let the therapist hear concerns and reflect them back so clients feel seen and understood, which helps with anxiety, depression, and decisions about change.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behavior and introduces practical exercises to shift them. In video or phone sessions Helen can guide thought records, behavioral experiments, and short skill practices that clients use between meetings.
Somatic therapy pays attention to the body and how sensations relate to emotions. Online formats can include gentle grounding practices, breathing exercises, and body awareness prompts that clients practice live during a call or through messaging check-ins.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Helen collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, comfort level, and lifestyle. She will adjust techniques over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions offer practical benefits like flexible scheduling and reduced travel. Video calls allow face-to-face connection, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text messaging keeps a thread of progress over time. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and daily life.
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A practical next step
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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