About Helen
Helen Willoughby has been working as a therapist since 2003 and brings 22 years of experience to her practice. She previously trained and worked as a nurse, which shaped her practical, steady approach to care. Helen works with people facing stress and anxiety alongside a wide range of life challenges.
Helen focuses on the person in front of her rather than a one-size-fits-all method. She listens first, answers questions, and helps people set simple, realistic goals.
Background and approach
Her style is calm and compassionate, and she aims to make sessions feel like a breathing space when life feels crowded. Her background includes long-term work with issues such as grief, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, relationship and intimacy concerns, addiction, eating difficulties and career strain.
Helen also supports people navigating parenting stress, sleep problems, anger, bipolar and depression, and challenges linked to neurodiversity and ageing. She draws on several therapy methods to suit different needs. Helen uses client-centred approaches to prioritise the person’s perspective, cognitive behavioural techniques to address unhelpful thinking and behaviour, and mindfulness practices to build present-moment skills.
Motivational interviewing and Jungian ideas also inform her work when helpful. Helen sees therapy as a collaborative process. She helps people pace change, try new ways of coping, and notice progress along the way.
If someone is ready to take a step, she offers steady support and practical suggestions to move forward.
How Helen’s approaches work online
Client-centred therapy focuses on the person’s experience and aims to make sessions feel supportive and respectful; it helps when someone wants to be heard and understood before making changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions and offers practical exercises to reduce anxiety and change unhelpful habits.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Helen will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then try methods that seem most helpful. That decision is collaborative and can be adjusted as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video calls suit deeper conversations when you can use visual cues, phone sessions work well with lower bandwidth or when a shorter check-in is needed, live chat allows back-and-forth typing during a busy day, and messaging supports brief updates or reflection between longer appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, care duties and travel without losing continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- 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
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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