Services
Hellen's experience includes working with children, adolescents, couples and families at varying stages of life. She incorporates her wealth of training and experience when assessing people's needs and then determines in collaboration with the clients what treatment approach meets their needs.
Mindfulness
Hellen utilizes a mindfulness approach to all forms of therapy. She strives to help clients be fully aware and present in the now, and to reduce their negative thinking about the past or future. She uses guided meditation exercises, and other mindfulness tools to help interrupt negative thought patterns and behaviours that often lead to depression, anxiety and unhealthy relationship patterns.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Cognitive Behavioural therapy is a form of psychotherapy that is problem focused and action oriented. It helps one improve emotions, and self sabotaging behaviour by challenging distorted beliefs and patterns of thinking with healthier more balanced thoughts, and more constructive behaviours.
Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy is a form of psychotherapy used to shift thoughts and behaviours at the level of the subconscious mind. Since we operate from the conscious mind only 5 percent of the time hypnotherapy can access at a deeper level.
Traumatic Incident Reduction
Traumatic Incident Reduction is a variety of techniques used for individual who have unresolved trauma. Techniques such as unblocking and basic and thematic incident reduction where clients are guided to go through recalling distressing traumatic incidents. Past traumas and losses retain their emotional charge and continue their adverse effect because they have never been fully processed. TIR is a method of allowing people to work through their traumas systematically and completely while in a safe space with the therapist.