Helen Yates , BACP

Helen Yates is a UK-based therapist with five years of professional experience who holds the BACP credential (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy). She supports people navigating stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, addiction, grief, and a range of challenges including eating and sleeping difficulties, ADHD, bipolar features, career uncertainty, and issues related to LGBT identity and intimacy.

Her foundational approach is client-centered therapy, which emphasizes empathy, respect, and the belief that each person is the expert of their own story. Within that person-centered framework she integrates techniques from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Attachment-Based Therapy, selecting methods that best fit an individual’s needs and goals. This flexibility allows her to tailor sessions to practical coping skills, emotional processing, and longer-term patterns of relating.

Helen aims to create a supportive, nonjudgmental environment that builds on a person’s existing strengths. She recognizes that beginning therapy can take courage and approaches each consultation with patience and collaborative focus, helping people set achievable goals and develop strategies to manage current difficulties and life transitions.

Approaches, Collaboration, and Online Support

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify personal values and commit to small, practical steps aligned with what matters most. It combines acceptance of difficult feelings with actions that move a person toward meaningful goals, and can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions.

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns of relating that develop from early relationships. By exploring how attachment histories affect current relationships and emotional responses, this approach can support healing from relational trauma, abandonment, and difficulties with intimacy.

Client-Centered Therapy centers on empathy, nonjudgmental listening, and respect for the person’s own perspective. It provides a space to explore feelings and choices while the therapist collaborates with the client to build on strengths and insight.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. A therapist will work collaboratively with each person to identify which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting techniques as the work unfolds.

Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to fit sessions into busy lives and to connect across distances. For many people, remote formats increase accessibility and allow ongoing work that supports progress between sessions.