Heli Annika Giles
Compassionate person-centred counselling for life changes
About Heli
Heli Annika Giles trained as an integrative therapeutic counsellor and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She brings three years of practice to sessions and works in English and Finnish. Annika aims to make first contact feel manageable and straightforward for anyone finding this step difficult.
Her style is warm and person-centred. She listens without judgement and helps people name what is troubling them.
Background and approach
Conversations focus on what matters to the individual and on small, practical steps that can ease day-to-day pressure. Annika commonly supports people coping with stress, anxiety and work pressure, as well as relationship and family concerns. She also works with grief, trauma and issues around self-esteem and intimacy.
Career worries, parenting strains and compassion fatigue are included in her practice. She uses a mix of approaches including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-based ideas, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and client-centred principles. Sessions often include looking at thinking patterns, clarifying values, and practising new ways of responding to problems.
Annika believes counselling is not about fixing someone but about understanding what is happening and building tools to cope better. She invites clients to set goals and reviews progress together so work stays practical and relevant. Sessions are offered online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging.
Annika works from the United Kingdom and does not take international clients.
What Heli works with
How Heli works
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Sessions & fees
How approaches like ACT and attachment work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for stress, anxiety and coping with life changes. Attachment-based ideas look at how early relationships shape expectations and reactions, helping people understand patterns in current relationships and improve connection. Client-centred therapy focuses on the person's own experience, offering empathic listening and support so they can explore what matters and decide next steps.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will ask about goals, preferences and what has helped or not helped in the past. They will suggest methods from these approaches and adapt them in collaboration with the client so sessions feel relevant and clear.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let you use face-to-face conversation without travel. Phone sessions are handy if bandwidth is limited or if someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging provide shorter check-ins, ongoing reflections, or a way to fit counselling into a busy day. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care and to try different ways of talking until you find what works best.
| 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
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Finnish
