Helen Lamming , NCPS

Helen Lamming is a UK-based therapist who believes people are the experts in their own lives and already possess strengths to navigate change. With 11 years of practice and more than 4,000 hours of counselling, she supports individuals, couples, and families through relationship challenges, intimacy concerns, parenting difficulties, and family conflict, offering calm, respectful, and curious engagement.

Helen has extensive experience working with relationship services such as Relate, where she specialised in family and relationship counselling. She now provides online-only counselling from Central London, seeing long-term and short-term clients and working with diverse backgrounds and identities, including neurodiversity and a wide range of sexual identities and relationship styles. Her approach emphasises empathy, kindness, and respect while paying close attention to the wider systems and life stages that shape presenting concerns.

Her qualifications include professional accreditation with NCPS, CPCAB certificates and diplomas including Relate CPCAB Diplomas in Family and Relationship Counselling, a Certificate of Proficiency, an M.Ed in Psychology of Education, a BA (Hons) in Psychology, a PGCE, and a BA in English and History. Helen is a registered member of CPCAB and follows their Code of Ethics. She receives regular clinical supervision and can offer either short-term agreements for a set number of sessions or ongoing open-ended work.

Therapeutic approaches and online care with Helen

Helen works with several evidence-informed approaches tailored to relationships and attachment. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early bonding and attachment patterns shape current relationships and emotional responses; it helps people understand connection, trust, and patterns that repeat across relationships. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) focuses on identifying and reshaping emotional responses within couples and close relationships, helping partners access and express underlying needs to repair and strengthen bonds. Client-Centered Therapy emphasises the client’s perspective, offering a nonjudgmental, empathic space where individuals can explore feelings and make choices that align with their values.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Helen collaborates with each person or couple to assess needs, goals, and preferences, and together they decide which methods to prioritise or combine to support progress. This collaborative stance helps ensure therapy feels relevant and manageable.

Online therapy delivers practical flexibility - sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging - which makes it easier to fit counselling around work, family, and geographic constraints. For many people, these options increase accessibility and consistency, allowing ongoing work with licensed professionals and therapists without the need for travel.