About Helen
Helen Yates is a counsellor who helps people manage stress, anxiety and life changes. She works with those facing relationship strain, grief, addictions and trauma. Helen also supports people dealing with body image, eating or sleeping difficulties, and work-related pressure.
Helen uses a person-centred way of working that puts the client’s experience first. She listens without judgement and helps people notice their strengths. From there she offers practical steps that fit each person’s day-to-day life.
Background and approach
Her practice draws on a range of approaches, including cognitive behavioural ideas and acceptance and commitment techniques. These are adapted to suit someone’s goals, whether that means reducing worry, improving sleep, or managing difficult emotions. Helen has five years of professional experience and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
She works from the United Kingdom and can meet people who live abroad as well. Sessions are available as video calls, phone appointments, live chat or text-based messaging. Therapy uses a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time, with costs varying by location and therapist availability.
How Helen’s approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting pushed around by them. It focuses on values and small committed actions to build a life that matters despite worry or low mood. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and teaches practical strategies to reduce anxiety and improve sleep or mood. Both approaches are useful for managing stress, anxiety and unhelpful habits.Finding the best way to work together is part of the process. Helen will listen to your goals and preferences and suggest which techniques might help most. She adapts methods to your situation and checks in so you both know what’s working and what needs change.
Online therapy makes sessions easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls let you use visual cues and a fuller conversation. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or when you need a shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging support ongoing reflection between sessions and can be useful for quick updates or when typing helps you organise thoughts. Registered and accredited professionals can offer all these formats to make therapy more flexible and accessible.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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