Helen Lamming

Helen Lamming works with people facing relationship strain, family conflicts, intimacy concerns, parenting challenges and anger. She helps clients talk through what is difficult and find practical ways to change patterns that cause hurt or distance. Helen aims to make the first steps feel manageable and supportive for those who are nervous or uncertain.

Helen brings eleven years of counselling experience to her work and holds NCPS accreditation. She has worked extensively at Relate and has completed diplomas in family and relationship counselling through CPCAB. Her training also includes a Master of Education in Psychology of Education and a BA (Hons) in Psychology, plus additional qualifications in teaching and the humanities.

In sessions she listens closely to each person and follows their priorities. She uses approaches drawn from attachment work, emotionally-focused therapy and internal family systems to help identify patterns and unmet needs. Helen explains ideas simply and encourages practical experiments to try between sessions.

Her experience includes more than 4,000 hours of counselling with individuals and couples, and she receives regular clinical supervision. She is experienced supporting people with autism and Asperger syndrome, attachment issues, codependency, and a range of relationship and family problems.

Helen offers online counselling and can work in short-term agreements or on an open-ended basis. She aims to be respectful and inclusive of different genders, ethnicities, neurodiversity, disabilities, sexual identities and belief systems.

Therapeutic approaches and online counselling

Helen uses attachment-based ideas to help people notice how early relationship patterns affect current bonds and to build more secure ways of relating. This approach is useful for recurring arguments, trust difficulties and intimacy struggles.

She also works with Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) techniques, which focus on identifying and reshaping emotional responses in close relationships. EFT can help when couples or partners feel stuck in repeating cycles of blame or withdrawal.

Finding the right approach is part of the work and Helen treats it as a collaborative process. She will discuss different methods, invite your questions and agree a plan that suits your goals and preferences rather than prescribing one fixed path.

If you are considering online counselling, please check the current session options before booking as formats are not listed here. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. Many people find video helpful for reading interaction, while phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or a quieter, less visual check-in is preferred. Registered or accredited professionals, including this counsellor, can discuss which arrangement will best match your needs and daily routine.