Helen Yates

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
• Client-centred approach

About Helen

Helen Yates works on stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, addiction and a wide range of related concerns using a person-centred approach alongside other methods she draws on as needed. She is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and has five years of experience in practice.

She helps people talk through practical problems such as sleep or eating issues, career strain, grief and coping with life changes. She also supports those facing intimacy-related difficulties, identity concerns including LGBT issues and body image, and the aftermath of sexual abuse. Sessions aim to build on a person's own strengths and perspective rather than simply imposing solutions.

Her core style is client-centred, which means she follows the person's concerns and pace in session. She combines this with approaches such as acceptance and commitment therapy and cognitive behavioural techniques when they are helpful for particular goals. That gives a balance between open listening and practical strategies to manage symptoms or behaviour.

She has worked with addiction, trauma, bipolar-related issues and care-related stress among other areas listed in her practice note. Helen also lists work with adoption and foster care, attachment concerns, autism and relationship complexity including kink and alternative sexual cultures.

Sessions are conducted in English and she accepts international clients. Costs vary with location and sessions are arranged through a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time. To start, a person selects the Talk to a counsellor online button, completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules a first session.

How her approaches are used in online counselling

Helen uses acceptance and commitment therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and decide what matters to them. ACT can be useful for stress, anxiety and struggling with change because it focuses on values and small practical steps.

She also works with attachment-based ideas, which look at how past relationships influence current ones and how to change damaging patterns. This approach can help where intimacy issues, abandonment or attachment problems are present.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and practical needs, and together they will decide which combination of methods fits best. That means sessions can move between open, person-centred listening and more structured skill-building or behaviour-focused exercises.

Session arrangements should be confirmed before booking because formats are not specified in her biography. Online counselling can make it easier to fit conversations around work, caregiving and travel, and it can allow shorter check-ins when time is limited. If a person needs to know which session formats are offered, they should confirm the available options during the booking step.

Topics Helen lists

• Stress and anxiety
• LGBT
• Relationship issues
• Depression
• Coping with life changes
• Addictions
• Family conflicts
• Trauma and abuse
• Grief
• Intimacy-related issues
• Eating disorders
• Sleeping disorders
• Parenting issues
• Anger management
• Self-esteem
• Career difficulties
• Bipolar disorder
• Coaching
• Compassion fatigue
• ADHD
• Abandonment
• Adoption and foster care
• Aging and geriatric issues
• Antisocial personality
• Attachment issues
• Autism and Asperger Syndrome
• Avoidant personality
• BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
• Blended family issues
• Body image
• Cancer
• Caregiver issues and stress
• Chronic pain, illness, and disability
• Codependency
• Commitment issues
• Communication problems
• Control issues
• Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
• Dependent personality
• Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
• Dissociation
• Divorce and separation
• Domestic violence
• Drug and alcohol addiction
• Eating and food-related issues
• Emptiness
• Family of origin issues
• Family problems
• Fatherhood issues
• Fertility issues
• First responder issues
• Forgiveness
• Gender dysphoria
• Guilt and shame
• Hearing impaired
• HIV and AIDS
• Hoarding
• Hospice and end-of-life counselling
• Immigration issues
• Impulsivity
• Infidelity
• Intellectual disability
• Isolation and loneliness
• Jealousy
• Life purpose
• Men's issues
• Midlife crisis
• Veteran and armed forces issues
• Money and financial issues
• Mood disorders
• Multicultural concerns
• Narcissism
• Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
• Panic disorder and panic attacks
• Paranoia
• Personality disorders
• Phobias
• Polyamory and non-monogamous relationships
• Postpartum depression
• Post-traumatic stress
• Pregnancy and childbirth
• Prejudice and discrimination
• Process addictions
• Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
• Self-harm
• Self-love
• Sex addiction
• Sexual assault and abuse
• Sexual dysfunction
• Sexuality
• Quitting smoking or vaping
• Social anxiety and phobia
• Visually impaired
• Women's issues
• Workplace issues
• Young adult issues

Ways of working

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
• Attachment-Based Therapy
• Client-Centred Therapy
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
• Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
• Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
• Existential Therapy
• Gottman Method
• Hypnotherapy
• Imago Relationship Therapy
• Jungian Therapy
• Mindfulness Therapy
• Motivational Interviewing
• Narrative Therapy
• Psychodynamic Therapy
• Solution-Focused Therapy
• Somatic Therapy
• Trauma-Focused Therapy
• Internal Family Systems

Questions about Helen

Does she work with anxiety?

Yes. Anxiety and stress are listed among the core concerns she supports.

What kind of counselling does she offer?

Her core style is the person-centred approach, and she also draws on ACT, CBT and DBT techniques as needed.

How much experience does she have?

She has five years of professional experience in counselling work.

Is she registered with a professional body in the UK?

She is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).

What languages are available for sessions?

Sessions are offered in English.

Can I work with her from outside the UK?

Yes. She accepts international clients.

How are sessions organised and paid for?

Costs vary with location and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.

How do I begin counselling with her?

Select the Talk to a counsellor online button, complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session.