Helen Yates
Tailored, person-centred therapy for life’s hard moments
About Helen
Helen Yates is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression and relationship difficulties. She supports those dealing with trauma, addiction, grief and identity-related concerns. She also works with people struggling with eating or sleeping problems, anger, self-esteem, career stress and ADHD.
Helen holds BACP accreditation and has five years of experience in the field. She uses a person-centred style that treats the client as the expert in their own life.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on listening, reflecting and helping people notice their strengths. Helen combines that approach with practical tools from cognitive and behavioural methods when useful. Her work often includes Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take manageable steps forward.
Attachment-based ideas are used when patterns from early relationships are getting in the way of current connections. Dialectical Behaviour Therapy skills can be taught for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Helen aims to create a calm, non-judgemental space where people can speak honestly.
She pays attention to practical outcomes such as better sleep, clearer boundaries, reduced panic or more stable mood. Helen also brings experience supporting people with LGBT matters, adoption and foster care backgrounds, and those coping with chronic illness or caregiver stress. Sessions are offered in English and international clients may be supported.
Therapy is arranged through a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time, with scheduling done after a short matching questionnaire.
What Helen works with
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Sessions & fees
How Helen’s approaches work online
Helen uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people connect with their values and take small, manageable steps towards a life they want. ACT focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and is often used for anxiety, depression and life transitions.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationship patterns affect current connections. This helps when trust, intimacy or repeated relationship difficulties are a concern. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is used to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and to practise concrete strategies that change mood and behaviour.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Helen will work with clients to decide which methods match their goals and comfort level, and she adapts techniques as progress is made. The plan can change over time based on what helps most.
Online work offers practical flexibility. Video calls are useful for deeper face-to-face conversations, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a busy day, and live chat or text messaging suit shorter check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to maintain regular sessions around work, travel or caregiving commitments.
| 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
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- 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
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- 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 of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- 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
- Parenting issues
- 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 esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- 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
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
