Helen Lamming
Helping people rebuild relationships and family life
About Helen
Helen Lamming helps people manage relationship strain, parenting challenges, intimacy-related issues, anger, and broader family problems. She brings calm, practical support and respects each person's strengths as she listens and responds. Helen is based in the United Kingdom and works online with people inside and outside the country.
She holds NCPS accreditation and has eleven years of clinical experience. Helen offers direct, down-to-earth counselling that focuses on what is happening now in relationships and family life.
Background and approach
She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early bonds affect current connections. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps when strong feelings get in the way of being close, and client-centred work keeps sessions paced around the person in the room. Her background includes many hours working with relationship and family concerns at Relate, where she completed diplomas in family and relationship counselling.
She also holds a Certificate of Proficiency from the Counselling and Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body and a master’s degree in the psychology of education, which feed into her practical approach. Helen makes time to support people with a wide range of issues including separation and divorce, blended family strain, communication problems, codependency, and fertility-related stress.
She also works with attachment difficulties, dissociation, and people who identify with neurodiversity such as autism and Asperger syndrome. Sessions can be short-term or open-ended, arranged to suit individual needs. Helen follows CPCAB professional standards and receives regular clinical supervision to inform her work.
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Sessions & fees
Approaches that guide online relationship and trauma work
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and emotional responses. It helps when people find patterns of closeness or distance repeating in their partnerships and family life.Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) concentrates on the feelings beneath relationship fights and disconnection. It aims to help people name and shift the key emotions that block intimacy and repair trust.
Internal Family Systems treats the mind as made up of parts that carry different feelings and roles. This approach can be useful when internal conflict, dissociation or strong reactive parts make relating to others difficult.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk things through with the person and agree on a plan based on their needs, goals and preferences. That collaboration means methods can be adjusted as therapy progresses.
Online sessions offer practical benefits for people with busy lives or who prefer not to travel. Video calls allow face-to-face contact, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and live chat or text messaging can suit people who express themselves better in writing. Registered and accredited professionals can use these formats to provide flexible, focused support that fits around work, family and daily routines.
| 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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Gender dysphoria
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
