About Helene
Helene Homer-Ishikawa is a licensed clinical social worker in Colorado with 23 years of experience. She brings a steady, compassionate presence to sessions and focuses on helping people manage strong feelings and life changes. She works with adults and older adults across a wide range of concerns.
Her practice grew from early work in family and child-focused settings to include many life stages. That range means she has supported people facing anxiety, depression, trauma and grief.
How Helene works
She also helps people dealing with relationship strain, parenting stress, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD, and issues around identity and sexual orientation. Helene uses psychodynamic therapy to look at patterns that repeat over time. She helps clients notice how past experiences shape current reactions and relationships.
Conversations aim to make those patterns clearer so people can choose different responses. Sessions are conversational and reflective. She listens for themes in how a person describes their life, feelings, and relationships.
From there she offers observations and questions that invite new understanding and options for change. People often come to address urgent symptoms and deeper, longer-standing patterns at the same time. Helene supports both practical coping and renewed self-awareness.
The pace and focus adapt to each person’s needs and goals.
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What Helene works with
The areas below are the ones Helene selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, CSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 23 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Colorado |
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Online support options
Psychodynamic work and online therapy
Psychodynamic therapy focuses on how past experiences and early relationships shape current feelings and reactions. It helps people spot repeating patterns that affect mood, self-esteem, and relationships so they can try different ways of relating.In sessions she uses discussion and reflection to bring those patterns into view. The therapist will invite questions and share observations, then work together with each person to set goals and decide what to focus on. That collaborative process helps pick the best approach for the issue at hand.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match practical needs. Video allows a fuller face-to-face conversation, phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited, shorter check-ins fit well as text or chat, and messaging lets people keep a steady thread between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and maintain continuity over time.
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