About Helen
Helen Ridlington-White is a psychotherapist with 28 years' experience in the United Kingdom. She trained and practised in counselling and child development and has worked in the NHS as a counsellor. Helen now offers psychotherapy and supervision and meets people where they are in life's challenges.
She uses an integrative approach that draws on psychodynamic ideas and Jungian thinking to help people make sense of inner experience. Sessions often look at patterns from the past and how they show up now.
Background and approach
Mindfulness skills and elements of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy are available to help manage intense emotions and build practical skills. Helen is used to working with neurodiversity and with people coping with grief, anxiety, depression, or life changes. She can also support those facing issues around adoption, attachment, divorce, domestic violence and parenting strains.
Her work includes attention to somatic experience and emotional expression when that helps the person concerned. Practical options for contact include video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. There is room in sessions to use creative arts and artistic self-expression if a person wishes to do so.
Sessions aim to help people increase self-understanding and take manageable steps towards change. Helen holds BACP accreditation, works with adults, and conducts supervisory work with students and professionals. English is spoken in sessions and she is able to see international clients as well.
Approaches that inform online work
Helen integrates Client-Centred Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and Jungian ideas into her online practice. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so the person can make their own sense of things and feel understood. It helps with building self-esteem and clarifying values.Dialectical Behaviour Therapy offers practical strategies for managing strong emotions, improving distress tolerance and handling relationship difficulties. It can be useful for people who need hands-on skills to steady their mood. Jungian approaches look at personal stories, symbols and recurring patterns to deepen self-understanding and bring meaning to change.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods suit their needs, goals and comfort level. That choice can change as therapy progresses and things become clearer.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is helpful for face-to-face conversation and non-verbal cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work, while chat or messaging can offer shorter check-ins or space to write out thoughts. These formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent around life commitments and different timezones.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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