About Helen
Helen Hampton is a counsellor based in Scotland who works with people facing stress, anxiety, grief and relationship difficulties. She also supports people dealing with trauma, depression, bipolar symptoms, ADHD and LGBT-related concerns. Helen uses a flexible style that aims to meet each person where they are.
Helen begins by listening to how difficulties affect day-to-day life and what people would like to be different. She explores what has or has not helped so far and highlights the strengths a person already has.
Background and approach
The client’s own insight is central, and Helen combines that with her clinical experience to decide the best way forward. Her background includes training in Person-Centred Counselling, cognitive behavioural approaches, psychodynamic ideas, transactional analysis, gestalt and brief solution-focused work. These inform a pluralistic way of working that can shift to match the situation and the person’s preferences.
Helen has four years’ experience and has worked extensively with people who have experienced trauma, including post-traumatic stress and complex post-traumatic stress. She values deep acceptance, warmth and the core counselling conditions of empathy and authenticity. She also draws on a neuroscience perspective to help make sense of patterns and bodily reactions.
Helen aims to offer practical, manageable steps alongside careful listening so people can build hope and courage to move forward.
What Helen works with
Everything Helen lists, in their own terms. LGBT is the reason Helen is listed here; the rest shows what else Helen works with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Coping with life changes
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Dissociation
- Guilt and shame
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
How Helen’s approaches translate to online work
Helen practises in a pluralistic way, drawing on methods such as Person-Centred Counselling and cognitive behavioural techniques. Person-Centred Counselling focuses on listening, empathy and understanding to help people feel heard and to build their own solutions. Cognitive behavioural approaches look at patterns of thought and behaviour and use practical exercises to reduce symptoms like panic, low mood or social anxiety.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Helen works collaboratively to decide which methods fit a person’s needs, goals and preferences. Together they review what is helping and adjust the plan as therapy progresses, using the client’s own strengths as a guide.
If you are considering online work, please confirm current session options before booking as formats are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments around work or family life and can reduce travel time. It also allows for shorter check-ins when needed, and can be used to practise skills between sessions. Many people find online sessions a practical way to keep continuity while they manage daily commitments.
Questions people ask about Helen
What kinds of issues does Helen help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, grief, and life changes. Helen also supports people with depression, bipolar experiences, ADHD, self-esteem and intimacy-related concerns.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Helen uses a pluralistic approach that adapts to each person. She combines the client’s knowledge of themselves with techniques from different therapies to find what helps.
What experience does she bring to therapy?
She has four years’ experience and has worked extensively with people affected by trauma, including PTSD and complex PTSD.
What credentials does she hold and where is she based?
Helen is listed with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, shown as BACP, and practices in the United Kingdom.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the UK work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted; sessions are offered to people within the United Kingdom.
How are fees and payments handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
What do I need to do to start therapy?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to the therapist’s availability.
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