About Helen
Helen Lopez is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 15 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She speaks English and Spanish and draws on practical therapy methods to help people feel steadier in daily life. She earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling.
Over the years she has worked with people facing mood instability, substance use, and negative self-talk.
Background and approach
She also supports those coping with trauma, identity questions, grief, and relationship strain. In sessions she uses straightforward, skills-based approaches. Clients learn ways to notice unhelpful thoughts, try out new coping strategies, and practice emotion regulation.
She combines goal-focused tools with attention to how relationships and past experiences shape behavior. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She explains techniques in simple language and checks in about what is useful for each person.
Sessions often include short exercises, problem-solving, and real-world practice between meetings. Helen works with common concerns such as anxiety, depression, addiction, and self-esteem. She also offers support around parenting stress, career transitions, and coping with major life changes.
People who want a practical, compassionate approach tend to do well with her way of working.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) emphasizes noticing thoughts and choosing actions that match personal values. It helps people with anxiety, avoidance, and coping during life changes by teaching practical ways to stay engaged in meaningful activities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and testing unhelpful thoughts and developing new behavior routines. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and mood instability because it breaks problems into clear steps people can practice between sessions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills that are helpful for strong emotions and relationship conflicts.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences. That means trying techniques, evaluating what helps, and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit varied schedules and needs. Video lets people use visual cues and do longer therapeutic work. Phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging suit brief check-ins, shorter coaching-style exchanges, or follow-up between sessions. These options make it possible to keep therapy consistent while juggling work, family, and other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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