Counsellor & Psychotherapist · Chelmsford & London · Online across the UK

You don't need
a crisis to come
to counselling.

The world is a lot right now. If you're already carrying something on top of that, the overwhelm can feel like too much. Maybe it's anxiety that won't shift, or burnout that crept up quietly, or old pain showing up somewhere new. A feeling that something isn't right and you can't quite name it.

Having had enough is reason enough.

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Sliding scale £45–£75. Cost should not be a barrier.

Who I work with

You think carefully about your life.
And you're still stuck.

You've spent a long time holding it together and want something more honest than that.

You carry things in your body as much as your mind, the feeling of bracing, or shutdown, or just not being able to land.

You're working out who you are underneath the survival strategies, the old roles, the things you took on because there was no one else to carry them.

You've lost yourself in a relationship, or you keep ending up in the same kind of pain and you can't quite work out why.

You think and reflect and analyse, and you understand a lot about yourself, and you're still stuck.

Faith, spirituality, or creativity matter to how you make sense of your life.

You don't fit neatly into standard therapy language and you want someone who isn't going to try to make you.

You want a space where depth is welcome and complexity isn't something to be managed away.

About Helen

I'm Helen.
Let me tell you a bit about myself.

I'm Helen. I'm a counsellor and psychotherapist based in Chelmsford, working in person and online. I'm mixed-race, I'm a Christian, and I've been through my own recovery, and all of that shapes how I work in ways that are hard to teach.

I've lived with trauma, with questions about identity and belonging, and with the slow, unglamorous work of finding your way back to yourself when you've lost the thread. That experience shapes how I listen and what I'm willing to go near. I'm not easily unsettled by complexity, contradiction, or the parts of a person's life that don't resolve neatly or quickly.

I trained slowly and deliberately over a number of years, because that's the kind of work I'm interested in doing.

Diploma in Counselling. BA (Hons) Counselling, Waverley Abbey College. BACP Individual Member. ACC Member. Regular supervision.

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How I work

An integrative approach.
Your lead.

I don't work from a single fixed method. At the core of everything is a genuine belief that you are the expert on your own life, and my job is to offer honesty, warmth, and consistency — to make this a relationship where you can say what's actually true.

The different parts of you

Sometimes the problem isn't one feeling, it's several pulling in opposite directions. I bring curiosity to the different parts of you that might be in conflict and to the ways you've learned to survive. That's not a flaw in you, it's where the most interesting work tends to start.

The body as well as the mind

Trauma, anxiety, and overwhelm don't only live in your thoughts. They live in the body too, the freeze, the shutdown, the feeling of bracing against something. I pay attention to what's happening there, not only to what's being said.

Honest, direct engagement

I listen carefully and ask questions that open things up. If something important needs naming, I'll name it and we'll look at it together.

Relationships & self

You can stop
disappearing.

A lot of the people I work with are good at relationships in a particular way. They're warm, attuned, loyal, generous, they hold other people carefully. What's harder is holding themselves, knowing what they actually want, saying no without it feeling like a rupture, choosing themselves without the guilt that follows.

Some of that comes from trauma. Some from learning early that staying connected meant making yourself smaller. Some from never having had enough room to work out who you are when you're not managing someone else's feelings.

This is work I find genuinely meaningful, not making people harder or more defended, but helping them build enough of a self that they can stay warm and still choose themselves clearly.

"You can hold others warmly
and choose yourself clearly.
Those aren't opposites."

Fees & sessions

What to expect

Sessions

Sessions are 50 minutes. We'd usually meet weekly to begin with. In person in Chelmsford, in person in London, or online across the UK.

Chelmsford sessions take place at
Chelmsford Counselling & Therapy Centre
14 Wells Street, Chelmsford, CM1 1HZ

Fees

I work on a sliding scale between £45 and £75. I work this way because I don't want cost to be the reason someone doesn't come. Get in touch and we'll work out what fits.

Getting started

Get in touch by email or phone. We'll have a brief initial conversation before booking anything, and you're welcome to ask questions first. There's no commitment involved in reaching out.

You don't need a crisis to come to counselling.

You think carefully about your life.And you're still stuck.

I'm Helen.Let me tell you a bit about myself.

An integrative approach.Your lead.