Helen Fox
Person-centred counsellor focusing on values and change
About Helen
Helen Fox is a BACP counsellor who works in a person-centred way. She uses warmth and straightforward conversation to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression and relationship problems. Helen focuses on practical steps and listening so clients can start making small changes quickly.
Helen draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-based ideas and mindfulness alongside person-centred practice. These approaches help with emotional regulation, difficult memories and making values-based choices. She frames sessions around what matters most to each person and keeps language simple and direct.
Background and approach
Her four years of experience includes work with grief, trauma and coping with life changes. Helen also supports people struggling with addictions, self-esteem, eating and sleeping issues, ADHD and career concerns. She addresses communication problems, intimacy-related issues and compassion fatigue as part of a broad practice.
Sessions can cover parenting stresses, blended family challenges, carer strain and chronic illness impacts. Helen also accepts referrals related to attachment difficulties, body image, and alternative sexual cultures such as BDSM and kink, and she is comfortable discussing complex personality and neurodiversity matters. Helen practises from the United Kingdom and offers therapy in English.
She works with a subscription model and responds to messages usually within one working day during normal weekday hours. To begin, clients use the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire before scheduling.
What Helen works with
How Helen works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches that translate online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice distressing thoughts and choose actions that match their values rather than getting stuck. It is useful for anxiety, low mood and problems that come from avoidance. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and supports people to build safer ways of relating and managing strong emotions. Client-Centred Therapy offers a calm, non-judgemental space where the counsellor follows each person’s lead and reflects what matters most to them. These approaches suit issues like relationship strain, grief and identity questions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify which methods fit their goals and preferences. That collaborative process means Helen can blend gentle reflection, mindfulness practices and values-based actions to suit changing needs.
Online sessions use video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video works well for face-to-face conversations, phone is useful when bandwidth is low, live chat can be a shorter check-in and messaging lets people write between sessions. These options make it easier to fit counselling around work, caring duties and travel, while keeping the focus on the therapeutic relationship and practical steps.
| 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
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- 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
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
