Helen Howett
Practical, compassionate support for everyday struggles
About Helen
Helen Howett welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure how to move forward. She uses a calm, straightforward style to help clients unpick worry, stress and relationship strain. Helen aims to make sessions feel practical and hopeful so people can try things between meetings and see small changes build over time.
Helen has five years of experience and holds NCPS as a listed credential. She draws on a background that includes medical science and childhood and youth studies.
Background and approach
This mix informs a grounded, curious approach to clients' struggles rather than a single theoretical view. In sessions she listens for attachment patterns and life stories that shape current difficulties. Helen uses client-centred conversation to follow what matters to each person.
She also brings mindfulness techniques to help with anxiety and stress, and psychodynamic ideas to look at deeper patterns that repeat over time. Clients commonly bring issues such as parenting strain, relationship and family difficulties, career worries, grief, trauma and abuse, or questions about self-esteem and life changes.
Helen also focuses on areas like abandonment, codependency, blended family issues and fertility concerns when these come up in individual work. Therapy is offered online by video, phone, live chat or messaging, with sessions organised around a subscription model. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then choose times that work for them.
Helen aims to create a steady, respectful space to work through what feels urgent and what matters for the future.
What Helen works with
How Helen works
Listed by Helen among the ways they work.
Listed by Helen among the ways they work.
Listed by Helen among the ways they work.
Listed by Helen among the ways they work.
Sessions & fees
How Helen’s approaches work online
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns show up now and helps people understand why they react in certain ways. This can be useful for relationship strain, abandonment worries and issues with trust. Client-centred therapy puts the person’s experience at the heart of the session and follows what the client brings; it helps people feel heard and clarify their goals. Mindfulness work teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce anxiety and manage stress in everyday moments.Finding the right approach is a shared process. Helen will talk with each person about what feels most useful, try different ways of working, and adapt methods to match the client’s needs, goals and preferences. This collaborative stance means the course of therapy can change as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible and accessible. Video calls are close to face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit around work or errands, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging lets people reflect in writing between sessions. These options help people use therapy around busy lives and varying schedules.
| 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
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
