Helen Yates, BACP

Helen Yates is a BACP-registered counsellor in the United Kingdom with five years of professional experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, addiction, grief, trauma and a range of other concerns including codependency and issues linked to LGBT identities. Helen focuses on practical ways to cope with current problems and to build steadier day-to-day routines.

Her approach is rooted in client-centred therapy, where the person is treated as the expert in their own life. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Attachment-Based ideas when they suit a person’s needs. Sessions are conversational and aim to make sense of patterns such as people-pleasing, trouble saying no, or living around someone else’s crises.

Helen uses simple, skill-based tools to help people manage overwhelming feelings and painful memories. She can help with boundary-setting, reducing avoidance, and practising tolerable steps toward change. Work might include spotting thinking patterns, trying small behavioural experiments, or learning techniques to steady intense emotion.

People seeking help for eating or sleeping problems, parenting stress, career strain, or long-term health and caregiving demands will find practical options to try between sessions. Helen also supports people working through attachment wounds, abandonment and intimacy-related difficulties.

To begin, clients follow a straightforward sign-up and matching process and then schedule a first session. Helen offers sessions in English and accepts international clients, with costs varying by location and paid through a cancellable subscription.

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