About Helen
Helen Yates helps people facing anxiety, stress, low mood and major life changes. She supports those dealing with relationship strain, grief, trauma and issues around identity and sexuality. Helen also offers help for addictive behaviours, sleep and eating concerns, parenting stress, attention differences and workplace challenges.
She uses a person-centred way of working that treats the person as the expert in their own life. That means sessions focus on what matters to the individual and move at their pace.
How Helen works
Helen also draws on practical techniques from cognitive behavioural approaches and skills from dialectical behaviour therapy when useful. Sessions are conversational and straightforward. Helen listens for what is getting in the way and suggests simple tools to try between meetings.
She encourages small, achievable steps and checks in on what helps and what does not. Helen has five years of professional experience and holds BACP registration, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy credential. She practises from the United Kingdom and offers work with clients internationally in English.
People begin by choosing therapy, completing a short matching questionnaire, and booking sessions to suit their schedule. Helen works online using a range of formats so people can pick what fits their life and goals.
Helen lists 19 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
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
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online access
Helen commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy and Client-Centred Therapy in her work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and it can be useful for anxiety, low mood and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and how early connection styles affect current trust and intimacy. Client-Centred Therapy puts the person at the heart of the work and builds sessions around their experience and goals.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Helen will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences and then recommend ways of working that feel most helpful. This is a collaborative process and plans are adjusted as progress is made.
Online therapy is offered by video calls, phone, live chat and text-based messaging so people can pick what fits their life. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins and text messaging can suit people who prefer writing or need flexible timing. These options aim to make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and daily routines.
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