About Helen
Helen Woodrum is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with ten years of outpatient experience. She has worked in community mental health centers and in an outpatient behavioral health clinic at a hospital. Helen focuses on what is most worrying to a person right now and helps them find practical ways to cope.
She developed an early interest in trauma and has spent much of her learning on how complex trauma affects people.
Background and approach
Helen uses approaches such as attachment-based work, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical skills, and emotionally-focused interventions to address painful memories and current struggles. She also brings a client-centered stance to sessions. Helen values her Master’s in Social Work because it highlights social systems and environmental factors when building a treatment plan.
This means she looks beyond symptoms to consider relationships, stressors, and daily demands that shape someone’s life. She encourages self-care for both mind and body as part of healing. Her room is meant to feel predictable and respectful while still allowing room for lightness and humor.
Helen aims to help people build resilience, grow self-awareness, and learn tools they can use outside sessions. She describes therapy as a collaborative process where the person’s priorities come first. Working from Illinois, she supports people through stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, ADHD, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, and other life changes.
Helen speaks English and offers multiple online session formats to fit different schedules.
How Helen's approaches translate to online care
Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in close relationships and how past connections shape current reactions; it helps people who want clearer boundaries and steadier emotional responses. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and actions that keep problems going and teaches steps to change them, which is useful for anxiety, mood issues, and sleep problems. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people name and move through strong emotions so they can feel more connected to themselves and others.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Helen will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then try interventions that match those needs. She encourages feedback so methods can be adjusted over time and the person feels the sessions are useful and practical.
Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video calls let people use visual cues when that helps, phone sessions can be a simpler option with lower bandwidth, and live chat or text-based messaging supports shorter check-ins or ongoing support between meetings. These options aim to reduce travel time and let people use the format that works best for their routine.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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