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Counselling Experience and Areas of Interest
Helen works with adults and couples experiencing a wide range of difficulties, including anxiety, emotional overwhelm, anger, relationship challenges, grief, trauma, low self-esteem, life transitions, identity concerns and neurodivergent experiences, including ADHD and autism.
She has worked with clients across all stages of adulthood, supporting people through traumatic events, emotional regulation difficulties, family conflict, relationship breakdown, illness, bereavement and significant life changes.
Alongside her clinical work, Helen brings almost twenty years of experience supporting adults, young people and families across educational, community and international settings. She has worked with people from diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds in Ireland and South America, where she spent nearly ten years living and working within educational, community and multidisciplinary settings.
Alongside her individual work, Helen has completed specialist couples counselling training and an intensive supervised clinical placement working with couples. She has experience supporting couples presenting with communication difficulties, conflict, trust issues, affairs, intimacy concerns, sexuality, identity questions and the additional challenges that can arise across different cultures, languages and neurotypes.
Helen works in both English and Spanish and welcomes clients from a wide range of cultural backgrounds.
Counselling and Psychotherapeutic Approach
Helen is a Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapist whose approach is relational, collaborative and tailored to the needs of the individual or couple. She recognises that there is no single approach that suits everyone and adapts her way of working accordingly.
Drawing on many years of experience supporting, teaching, mentoring and facilitating individuals and groups, Helen understands the importance of creating a therapeutic relationship that feels genuine, respectful and responsive to each client's needs. She believes that many of the difficulties people experience emerge within relationships and that therapy can provide an opportunity to better understand ourselves, the patterns that shape our lives and the ways we relate to others.
In couples work, Helen helps partners step back from recurring cycles of conflict, misunderstanding or disconnection in order to better understand the dynamics between them. Rather than focusing on who is right or wrong, she works with couples to explore what may be happening beneath the surface, helping them communicate more effectively and develop a deeper understanding of one another. She views the relationship itself as central to the work, creating space for both partners to better understand the patterns that keep them stuck and to develop new ways of relating.
Psychotherapy Training and Accreditation
Helen holds a Master's degree in Psychotherapy and a Higher Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy from Dublin Business School. Her postgraduate research explored ADHD, identity, stigma, emotional regulation, violence and the socio-therapeutic relationship.
Prior to training as a psychotherapist, Helen completed a Master's degree in Sociology, where her research explored relationships, intimacy, sexuality, identity, changing family structures and violence in contemporary society.
Helen has completed specialist couples counselling training and is a fully accredited member of the Irish Association of Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy (IAHIP). She is also registered with the Irish Council for Psychotherapy (ICP) and engages in ongoing professional development and regular clinical supervision to support safe, ethical and reflective practice.
