About Helen
Helen Willoughby is a counsellor with more than 22 years of practical experience. She began her professional life as a nurse and moved into therapy in 2003. She runs a independent practice in the United Kingdom and works with clients on a wide range of concerns, including stress, anxiety, addictions and relationship difficulties.
Her background includes work with grief, sexual and domestic abuse, gender and sexuality issues, and long-term health challenges.
Background and approach
She uses several approaches such as Client-Centred Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Jungian ideas, choosing methods to suit each person. Helen also draws on mindfulness and motivational interviewing where these fit the goals. In sessions she aims to treat each person as an individual and to listen without judgement.
She focuses on practical ways to reduce distress and build skills, while also giving time to understand deeper patterns. Early meetings include answering questions and checking what a client needs from counselling. Her style is calm and compassionate, and she encourages people to take things at their own pace.
Therapy is presented as an opportunity to breathe, to build confidence and to try different ways of coping. Helen offers support for everyday stresses and more complex life changes. She works with clients on issues such as sleep problems, parenting strain, anger, self-esteem and career worries.
Other areas she addresses include ADHD, bipolar and depression, body image and chronic illness. Helen accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English.
Approaches that translate to online work
Client-Centred Therapy places the person’s own goals and experience at the heart of sessions. It involves active listening and reflecting back what matters most to the client, which helps people feel understood and decide their next steps. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, focuses on practical strategies to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours; it is commonly used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems and stress management.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will discuss different methods and work collaboratively to choose what feels most helpful. That decision is reviewed over time so the plan can be adapted to changing needs and aims.
Online sessions offer flexibility for people juggling work, family and health needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that matters, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a busy day, and live chat or text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins or those who prefer written communication. These options help make therapy more accessible across different schedules and locations.
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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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