About Helen
Helen Willoughby trained as a nurse before moving into counselling and has practised as a therapist since 2003. She holds BACP and NCPS credentials and works from a independent practice in the United Kingdom. Helen is experienced and direct, and she aims to make the first contact straightforward for worried parents and individuals.
Helen helps people with a wide range of concerns including anxiety, depression, bipolar difficulties, addiction, grief and trauma.
How Helen works
She also supports people facing relationship and family issues, parenting strain, intimacy problems and work-related stress. Other areas of focus include eating and body image concerns, chronic illness and pain, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Her style is grounded and person-focused.
Sessions are practical and conversational. She listens first, and then works with each person to find helpful ways to cope and move forward. Helen can use mindful exercises, practical CBT tools and reflective, Jungian-informed exploration depending on what the client needs.
Helen aims to answer questions at the start of therapy so people feel more comfortable about trying counselling. She describes therapy as a place to take a breath, to be treated with kindness, and to build small, steady changes. Courage and honesty are welcomed and honoured in her room.
With more than two decades of experience, she brings nursing and counselling perspectives to her work. Helen offers sessions online and by phone, and she will help people shape an approach that fits their life and goals.
Helen lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | BACP, NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 22 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Helen’s approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person without judgement. It helps people who need a steady, accepting space to talk through feelings and make their own choices about change.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behaviour and teaches simple, practical tools to reduce anxiety, improve sleep and manage mood. It suits people who want clear strategies they can practise between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Helen will discuss goals and preferences and use techniques from different models to suit what the person needs. This is a collaborative process and she adapts methods as therapy progresses.
Online therapy offers flexibility and a range of ways to connect. Video calls let people meet face to face when visual contact helps the work. Phone sessions can fit around a busy day or use less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging provide quick check-ins or ongoing written support when shorter exchanges are more helpful. Registered or accredited professionals can use these formats to make therapy more accessible and easier to fit into daily life.
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