Helen Heap
Compassionate practical therapy for everyday struggles
About Helen
Helen Heap works with adults who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma, grief or low self-esteem. She speaks plainly and offers steady support while people work through difficult moments. Helen brings ten years of experience and a patient, practical manner to each conversation.
Her style is warm and collaborative. Helen listens first to understand what matters most, then helps people set small, achievable goals. Sessions focus on everyday steps that make life feel more manageable, such as clearer communication, routine changes, or ways to cope with strong emotions.
Background and approach
Helen has a BACP credential, which indicates professional registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide work on specific concerns like trauma, grief, and low confidence. Treatment is tailored to each person rather than following a single prescribed method.
She also supports people dealing with complex or long-term issues such as chronic illness, caregiver stress, body image struggles, attachment or personality-related patterns, and problems around commitment and control. Helen aims to help people understand patterns and try different approaches that fit their life. Sessions are offered in English and can be arranged for people in the United Kingdom and internationally.
Helen encourages a paced process, where progress is measured in practical improvements and in the client’s own sense of wellbeing.
What Helen works with
Sessions & fees
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Helen uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that aim to address specific problems in practical terms. One common approach focuses on understanding unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns and testing small changes. This helps with anxiety, stress and low self-esteem by breaking problems into manageable steps.Another approach concentrates on working through distress from past trauma and abuse by building coping skills and pacing emotional work. This method supports people who find painful memories or strong reactions are getting in the way of daily life. Helen adapts these techniques to the person’s pace and tolerance.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to decide which techniques fit their situation, goals and preferences. That decision is reviewed over time so the plan can change if something better suits the client.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face discussion and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for faster check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options aim to increase flexibility and make it simpler to keep therapy consistent.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| 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
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- 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
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
