Helen Pool, BACP
8 years in practice
Helen Pool is a counsellor who aims to help people who feel stuck, overwhelmed or worn down by life.
License and registration
- BACP
- 389680 · expires February 2027
- Years in practice
- 8
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the registration with the body that granted it.
About Helen
Helen Pool is a counsellor who aims to help people who feel stuck, overwhelmed or worn down by life. She meets individuals who want to shift patterns, heal from past hurts, or find clearer ways to manage stress and relationships. Helen writes plainly and listens with warmth to help clients spot what is driving their difficulties and make steady changes.
Her personal experience of working through abandonment and low self-worth shapes how she understands clients' struggles.
Background and approach
That history informs a practical and compassionate style rather than a set of fixed answers. She keeps sessions focused on what matters to each person, and on building confidence to act differently. Helen has practised for eight years and holds a BACP accreditation.
She trained in hypnotherapy and completed a postgraduate diploma at Leeds Beckett University. Before counselling she worked as an engineer and project manager, so she is familiar with workplace pressures and career stress. Her approach draws on attachment-based ideas, cognitive behavioural techniques, emotionally-focused ways of looking at relationships, client-centred listening, and hypnotherapy where suitable.
Sessions aim to identify unhelpful patterns, build practical coping skills, and support emotional processing at a manageable pace. Helen offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat and messaging. She works with adults and young people aged 11 and above, and accepts international clients.
The first steps are simple and straightforward to arrange.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Helen lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- 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 names
- Hypnotherapy
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
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Online support
Approaches that suit online counselling
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships affect feelings and behaviours now. It helps when patterns of fear of rejection, avoidance or dependence show up in adult life and relationships. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, focuses on changing unhelpful thinking and behaviour step by step to reduce anxiety and improve coping for stress and mood problems. Hypnotherapy offers guided relaxation and focused attention to help access thoughts and responses that feel stuck and to support change in habits or reactions.Finding the right combination is part of the work together. The counsellor will talk through goals and preferences and try different ways of working to see what fits. That means sessions can be collaborative, with regular check-ins about pace and what is or is not helpful.
Online therapy gives practical flexibility. Video calls let people read facial expressions and work in real time, while phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins, ongoing reflections between sessions, or people who prefer typing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit counselling around work, family and travel commitments, and to continue work with the same therapist even if life circumstances change.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does Helen help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, relationship and family issues, self-esteem, addiction concerns, trauma and grief, parenting strain, anger, career difficulties and life changes.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is warm and gently challenging, combining listening with practical techniques. She adapts the approach to each person's needs rather than using one fixed method.
How much experience does she have?
Helen has practised for eight years and has worked with clients internationally on a range of issues including trauma, relationships and workplace stress.
What credentials and location are on record?
She holds a postgraduate diploma from Leeds Beckett University and is a BACP member. Her practice is based in the United Kingdom.
Which languages and international options are available?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts clients from outside the UK.
Which session formats are offered?
Helen provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different preferences.
How does payment and cost work?
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