About Heli
Heli Annika Giles is a BACP registered counsellor who uses a person-centred way of working. She has three years of clinical experience and speaks English and Finnish. She aims to make first contact feel manageable and calm, and she encourages people to bring whatever is worrying them to the session.
Her approach is straightforward and practical. Sessions focus on listening, understanding what matters to the client, and helping people notice unhelpful patterns.
Background and approach
She supports people who are carrying anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, work pressure, relationship worries and grief. She also works with trauma, parenting concerns and compassion fatigue. Heli uses a mix of approaches to shape sessions around each person’s needs, including acceptance and commitment ideas, cognitive behavioural techniques and attachment-informed thinking.
The work can include targeting thoughts and behaviours, clarifying values, and exploring how early relationships affect current patterns. Clients set the pace and choose topics to focus on. Heli reviews progress collaboratively so goals can be changed as needed.
She frames counselling as a way to increase self-awareness, build coping skills and make day-to-day life feel more manageable. Practical arrangements include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Sessions are offered from the United Kingdom and are available in English and Finnish.
Heli is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
How Heli’s approaches work online
Heli blends acceptance and commitment ideas with cognitive behavioural techniques and attachment-informed thinking to shape online sessions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting pushed around by them, and it supports living in line with personal values. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought and behaviour patterns to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Attachment-Based ideas examine how early relationship experiences influence present-day connections and emotional reactions, which can help with relationship stress and intimacy concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences at the start and together decide which methods to try. That makes the process collaborative and adaptable as needs change during therapy.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, which allow flexibility around work, family and travel. Video sessions enable face-to-face conversation; phone calls can fit into shorter breaks or work around bandwidth limits. Live chat and messaging suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer not to use audio. These options make it easier to keep continuity and to try different ways of working without needing a physical commute.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Finnish
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