Helen Willoughby
Experienced therapist combining practical and reflective care
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About Helen
Helen Willoughby trained as a nurse before becoming a therapist in 2003. She has over two decades of experience and works from a independent practice in the United Kingdom. Helen uses straightforward language and aims to make the first steps into counselling less daunting for people feeling overwhelmed.
She says counselling can be hard work but also gives space to breathe and be kinder to yourself. Helen sees people with many different difficulties including stress, anxiety, depression and bipolar mood concerns.
Background and approach
She also helps with relationship and family issues, grief and bereavement, addictions, eating and body image concerns, and intimacy-related worries. Additional areas she attends to include ADHD, chronic illness or pain, trauma and abuse, and challenges linked to ageing and cancer. Her approach draws on a mix of methods tailored to the individual.
Helen uses client-centred ways of working alongside cognitive behavioural techniques and mindfulness. She also brings elements of Jungian thinking and motivational interviewing when these fit someone’s goals. In sessions she aims to treat each person as an individual and to work with warmth and patience.
Early meetings are used to answer questions and shape a plan together. Helen offers practical steps as well as time to reflect, so people leave sessions with something they can use between meetings. She is registered with BACP and NCPS and works in English.
International clients are accepted, and she asks new clients to select the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire to begin.
At a glance
- Years practising
- 22
- Registered with
- BACP, NCPS
- Registration number
- 384407, NCS23-02395
- Languages
- English
- Approaches include
- Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Jungian Therapy
- How sessions happen
- Online, by video, phone or messages
Details are as listed on Helen's public professional profile. You can check any number with the professional body.
What Helen works with
Everything Helen lists, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Helen lists
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- 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 works online
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Helen will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then suggest which methods to try. That decision is collaborative and may change as therapy progresses to fit what is most helpful.
Confirm the session formats available before booking because the biography does not specify which formats she uses. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life by removing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins, and making it simpler to schedule appointments around work or caring commitments. It also lets people use mindfulness exercises and CBT worksheets between meetings, so practical progress can continue outside the hour.
Questions and answers
What kinds of problems does Helen help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression and bipolar mood concerns, plus relationship and family difficulties, grief, addictions, eating and body image issues, and intimacy-related worries.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Helen uses a warm, person-centred style and mixes practical techniques with reflective work. She aims to answer questions early and shape sessions around each person.
How long has she been practising?
She has practised as a therapist since 2003 and had a nursing background before that, giving her over 22 years of clinical experience.
What credentials and country are listed?
Her listed credentials are BACP and NCPS, and she works in the United Kingdom.
Which languages and international options are available?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats does she offer?
Please confirm current session options before booking, as the biography does not list specific formats.
How are fees handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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