About Helen
Helen Allen is a counsellor who supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, grief and relationship difficulties. She also helps with eating and body image concerns, sleep problems, parenting stress and career-related pressure. Helen works with emotional wounds from trauma and abuse, and with issues such as anger, low self-esteem and compassion fatigue.
She takes a practical, person-centred approach. Sessions focus on what matters to the individual and on small, manageable steps.
Background and approach
Helen listens for patterns in relationships and responses, and helps people try different ways of coping and thinking. The aim is to make daily life feel more manageable. Helen trained to a high level in eating disorder work and has experience with a range of food-related difficulties and body image distress.
She has worked alongside a local eating disorders charity and volunteered with a national bereavement organisation, which informs her approach to loss and grief. Her practice draws on attachment-based ideas, cognitive behavioural techniques and mindfulness. She blends these with narrative and existential perspectives to match each person’s needs.
Sessions are designed to build awareness, practical coping skills and clearer relationship patterns. With six years of professional experience, Helen is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and the National Centre for Professional Standards, NCPS. She offers appointments in the United Kingdom and accepts international clients for online work.
How Helen’s approaches work online
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and feelings. Online sessions use conversation and reflective questions to help people notice these patterns and try different ways of relating, which can ease anxiety and intimacy-related issues.Client-centred practice focuses on non-judgemental listening and letting the person lead the pace. In remote sessions this means time to talk things through, be heard and develop self-directed goals with the counsellor’s support. It often helps when someone feels stuck or uncertain what they need.
Cognitive behavioural techniques involve looking at thoughts, feelings and behaviours and trying specific exercises to shift unhelpful patterns. Online work can include short behavioural tasks between sessions and simple thought-recording that fits into daily life.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the process. Helen will work collaboratively to decide which approaches suit a person’s needs, goals and preferences. That choice can be reviewed as therapy progresses so the plan remains practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different schedules and situations. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when useful, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a break, and live chat or text-based messaging suits shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options help make regular contact possible when in-person meetings are difficult.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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