Helen Yates

Helen Yates is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who helps people work through stress, anxiety, relationship strain, depression and issues linked to identity. She supports clients coping with trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, and concerns around intimacy, eating and sleeping. Helen also addresses work-related strain, compassion fatigue and challenges linked to ADHD. Helen uses a person-centred style that puts the client’s experience at the centre of sessions. She believes people are the experts on their own story and draws on other approaches as needed. Sessions focus on practical steps, clear thinking and building on existing strengths. Her training is reflected in registered membership with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, shown as BACP. Helen has five years of professional experience working in therapeutic roles across community and clinical settings. In practice she mixes client-centred work with techniques from cognitive behavioural therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, attachment-based work and dialectical behaviour therapy. This lets her use straightforward tools for stress, mood and relationship concerns alongside longer conversations about meaning and identity. People who meet her can expect calm, respectful listening and a practical interest in what helps day to day. Helen encourages small, manageable steps and checks in about progress. If you want to begin, the Start Therapy button begins the matching process and you can schedule a first session once matched.

How Helen adapts therapeutic approaches for online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is about clarifying what matters to you and taking small actions that match those values; it can help when anxiety or low mood make choices feel hard. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening, understanding and building on a person’s strengths to help them feel heard and make changes at their own pace; it suits people who want a supportive, non-directive space. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and uses practical exercises to shift unhelpful patterns, which can be useful for anxiety, low mood and sleep problems. Finding the right blend of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences and together decide which methods to use. That collaborative process helps shape clear, manageable steps to try between sessions. Please confirm current session options before booking because the biography does not list specific formats. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, for example by removing travel time or allowing a shorter check-in during a lunch break. It also lets people keep a regular rhythm of meetings while using techniques such as short behavioural experiments, paced breathing exercises, or value-driven tasks that can be practised between sessions.