About Helen
Helen Damisa is a counsellor who helps people manage stress and anxiety and work through relationship and family concerns. She also supports people coping with trauma, abuse and grief. She aims to make the first step easier and values the courage it takes to ask for support.
She creates a calm space where clients can say what they think and feel without fear of judgement. Conversations focus on what matters to the person and on clear, practical steps to reduce distress.
Background and approach
Sessions are straightforward and conversational rather than full of clinical jargon. Helen uses a mix of approaches to suit different needs. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based ideas often shape the way she frames problems and goals.
She adapts techniques so they fit everyday life, not just things said in the room. Across six years of practice she has worked with a wide range of concerns linked to relationships, attachment and identity. That includes issues such as abandonment, foster and adoption experiences, autism and attachment difficulties.
Helen draws on that experience to help people untangle patterns that keep causing pain. Her style is warm and direct. She listens closely, asks practical questions and helps set small, doable steps between sessions.
The focus is on what a person wants to change and ways to make progress that fit their life.
How Helen uses different therapy methods online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting ruled by them, then choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress and for finding more meaning when life feels restricted. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and tests small changes to reduce distress and improve daily routines. It is often used for anxiety and managing unhelpful thinking patterns. Attachment-Based Therapy explores patterns formed in early relationships and how they shape current connections and trust, which can help with relationship and attachment difficulties.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences and discuss which methods fit best. Together you will try things and adjust the plan if needed, so the process stays collaborative and grounded in what helps you most.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and non-verbal cues, while phone calls are handy when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for shorter check-ins and ongoing support between meetings. These options help fit therapy around work, caring responsibilities and travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- 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
- 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-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- 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
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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