About Helen
Helen Hovsepian is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 25 years of experience. She helps people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure how to move forward. Her approach is warm and straightforward, aimed at making it easier to talk about hard things and take practical steps toward change.
Helen often works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and the effects of trauma and abuse. She also supports people dealing with addictions, shifts in life direction, low self-esteem, guilt or shame, and questions about life purpose.
Background and approach
She listens first and lets each person set the pace for what they want to address. In sessions she blends somatic practices with talk-based methods to help people notice how emotions show up in the body and in thoughts.
She uses client-centered work to follow each person’s priorities, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking, and solution-focused techniques to set small achievable goals. Helen draws on psychodynamic ideas when exploring longer-standing patterns that affect daily life. Her style is calm and nonjudgmental.
She aims to build trust so people feel safe to share at their own speed. When someone is ready, she introduces tools and exercises to reduce distress and improve coping. Helen practices in California and speaks Spanish.
She accepts international clients and offers multiple online formats for sessions. To begin, a short matching questionnaire helps connect people with the right scheduling options.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Somatic Therapy helps people notice how stress and emotions appear in the body and uses gentle attention to physical sensations to reduce tension and increase presence. It can be useful for trauma reactions, chronic anxiety, and when words alone don’t capture the experience.Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and following the person’s lead so sessions feel respectful and supportive. This approach helps people feel understood and safe to explore difficult feelings at their own pace.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings and actions. It teaches clear strategies for spotting unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and lift mood.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose approaches that match their needs, goals and comfort level. Together they try small changes and adjust the plan based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people meet face to face from home, phone sessions provide a straightforward option, and live chat or text-based messaging can be useful for short check-ins or when typing feels easier. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to maintain continuity across different locations.
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- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- Spanish