FIND
YOUR
FLOW
Hi, I'm Helen
I offer counselling and
psychodynamic therapy
to help you get
unstuck
About me
I am a BACP registered counsellor, psychodynamic therapist and a 350hrs+ Yoga Alliance certified yoga teacher based in Hackney, East London. For me, both therapy and yoga are about finding our way home - to a steady feeling of confidence and ease in ourselves, even when the waters around us are rough.
For more than a decade, I have devoted my practice, studies and
reflection to broadening my awareness, noticing when I'm off-centre
and learning how to navigate my way back to the eye of the storm - the calm in the chaos - time and again. It's a process of staying
curious, listening openly and responding with compassion to whatever gets stirred up.
Yoga, therapy and meditation, are the methods I've found most helpful to cultivate the spaciousness and courage to sit with discomfort. I’ve developed deeper, more fruitful connections and discovered new strengths with which to unpick old, unhelpful storylines.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying everyday is all sunshine and roses - far from it! But feeling inwardly anchored means I can ride the ebb and flow of life with a clear sense of direction while staying open to the glint of new possibilities just over the horizon.
Working with me
Make connections. Find clarity. Get creative.
I work psychodynamically which means we will get curious about your internal world as well as what’s going on around you in your life. We’ll look at what’s happened in the past in order to shed light on what’s happening for you in the present, and we’ll pay attention to unintentional habits that might be holding you back from living the way you want to live.
I am here to help you get unstuck.
Together we will create a space in which you feel seen, heard and safe to explore and express yourself. We will think about how the messages you received from the world around you as you were growing up have affected the way you feel about yourself and how you relate to the people and events in your life. Feelings that have been pushed down or cut off because they were too big to deal with at the time might come up and we will work through them together.
By connecting with your internal experience, you will get in touch with emotional parts of yourself that you might be less familiar with. I am here to help you meet these parts of yourself with compassion, and through acceptance of yourself as you are, to create the opportunity for growth and change.
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it and join the dance!