About Helen
Helen Yates is a counsellor who supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression and relationship difficulties. She also helps with trauma and abuse, addiction, bereavement, intimacy concerns and issues around LGBT identity. Helen works with practical life problems such as sleep and eating difficulties, career strain, parenting worries and coping with major life changes.
Helen uses a person-centred style in sessions. That means she listens closely and follows each person's pace.
Background and approach
She draws on other approaches, choosing techniques that fit the individual rather than forcing a single method. Her clinical toolkit includes somatic work, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy among other approaches. Sessions might mix talking with attention to body sensations and simple exercises aimed at building skills for everyday life.
Helen holds registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, shown as BACP. She has five years of practice experience in the United Kingdom and offers sessions in English. International clients are accepted for online work.
Practical session options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Helen uses a subscription model for sessions that can be cancelled at any time, and scheduling follows the booking process on the site.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Somatic work pays attention to how stress and emotions show up in the body. It uses gentle awareness of sensations and simple grounding techniques to help people manage anxiety, trauma and chronic tension.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on accepting difficult thoughts and feelings while clarifying what matters most. It helps people move towards meaningful action even when emotions are hard to face.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how past relationships shape current patterns. It can help people understand trust, closeness and communication difficulties that affect current relationships.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with clients about their goals and preferences and try different methods to see what fits best. This is a collaborative process that adapts over time.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, family and travel, and allow people to continue therapy when in different locations. Registered or accredited professionals can use these formats to deliver the same therapeutic ideas as face-to-face work while adapting exercises and conversations for the online setting.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English