Helen Damisa
Calm practical support for everyday struggles
About Helen
Helen Damisa offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief or the aftermath of trauma and abuse. She meets people where they are and focuses on clear, doable steps to make life feel more manageable. Helen uses simple language and a patient approach so conversations are easy to follow even when emotions run high.
She draws on six years of experience and works from ideas in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy among other approaches.
Background and approach
That means sessions can include noticing unhelpful thoughts, trying small behaviour changes, and looking at how relationships shape current struggles. The emphasis is on what helps day to day rather than technical labels. Helen aims to create a calm space where thoughts and feelings can be spoken about without judgment.
She encourages honest conversation and helps people spot patterns that keep problems going. Sessions are collaborative - clients set the pace and priorities. She also supports people facing practical strains such as caregiving stress, chronic illness, body image concerns, adoption and foster care issues, and communication problems.
Helen has experience with attachment difficulties, avoidance and codependency themes and can help people who are processing grief or cancer-related emotional impact. Sessions are offered in English and Helen works with international clients. She uses direct, compassionate talk and practical exercises to help people build coping skills and make steady changes over time.
What Helen works with
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Sessions & fees
Approaches that translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck by them, then choose actions that reflect their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing small changes in behaviour to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. It is often used for anxiety, mood and stress-related problems. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and communication, and it can help people who struggle with trust, abandonment fears or recurring relationship difficulties.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences and what feels helpful. Together they will try methods and adjust the plan so it fits the person’s needs and pace.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls suit deeper conversations that benefit from seeing expressions. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit a short break at work. Live chat and messaging work well for brief check-ins or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around daily life and to keep momentum between meetings.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
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 counselling
- 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-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
