- Years in practice
- 8
- Registration
- BACP
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Family conflicts
About Helen
Helen Pool is a BACP counsellor who focuses on helping people untangle the patterns that cause pain in their lives. She writes simply and plainly, and aims to make sessions feel like a steady, honest conversation. If you feel stuck, anxious or overwhelmed by family or parenting pressures, she helps people find clearer ways forward.
Helen draws on eight years of hands-on practice with people facing anxiety, trauma, relationship struggles, addiction, grief and work-related stress.
Background and approach
Her own experience coming through attachment wounds shapes how she listens and responds. She offers a warm, open style that balances empathy with gentle challenge. Her approach is flexible rather than fixed.
Helen uses attachment-based ideas to look at relationship patterns, client-centred listening to follow what matters to you, and cognitive behavioural tools to try different ways of thinking and acting. She blends these so sessions match each person's needs and pace. Sessions are conversational and practical.
Helen helps people notice repeating habits, name difficult feelings, and try small experiments that can change how they cope. She also draws on hypnotherapy and existential questions when they feel useful to the work. Based in the United Kingdom, Helen has experience working with international clients.
Her background in engineering and project management means she understands workplace pressures and practical life changes. People who want straightforward, empathic support for parenting, family or personal struggles may find her approach helpful.
What Helen works with
Everything Helen lists, in their own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Helen helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
- Coaching
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Helen lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
How Helen uses relational and behavioural approaches online
Attachment-based work looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and coping. It helps people understand recurring patterns in parenting, intimacy and family life by tracing how those patterns started and what keeps them going.Client-centred therapy puts the person’s experience at the heart of the session. The counsellor follows what matters to the client, offers empathic listening and helps people find their own answers rather than giving advice.
Cognitive behavioural techniques focus on the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. They often involve trying small, practical experiments and learning new ways to respond to stress, anxiety or unhelpful habits.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Helen will discuss different ways of working and agree a plan with each person based on their goals, life circumstances and preferences. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions as needs change.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow visual connection for relationship work, phone sessions can fit into a busy day or require less bandwidth, and live chat or messaging suit short check-ins or ongoing support between calls. These options make it easier to fit therapy around parenting, work and other commitments.
Questions people ask about Helen
What concerns does Helen commonly help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, relationship and family issues, parenting challenges, addictions, trauma and grief among other concerns.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is warm and direct, combining listening with gentle challenge and practical exercises to try between sessions.
What experience does she bring to therapy?
Helen has eight years of clinical practice and draws on personal experience of attachment wounds to inform her work.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and works from the United Kingdom.
Which languages and international options are available?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts clients from outside the UK.
In what formats are sessions offered?
Therapy is available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
What steps are involved in getting started?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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