Helen Pool, BACP
8 years in practice
Helen Pool offers calm, straightforward support for people feeling stuck or worn down by life.
License and registration
- BACP
- 389680 · expires February 2027
- Years in practice
- 8
- Languages
- English
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About Helen
Helen Pool offers calm, straightforward support for people feeling stuck or worn down by life. She meets people where they are and helps them notice the patterns that keep repeating. Helen writes plainly and listens closely so that clients can find clearer choices and practical next steps.
Helen draws on eight years of clinical practice and a background that includes a Postgraduate Diploma from Leeds Beckett University and a Diploma in Hypnotherapy.
Background and approach
She is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). Her own early experience of people-pleasing and fear of abandonment informs the empathy she brings to sessions. Her work covers common concerns such as stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, family problems, low self-esteem, addictions, trauma and grief.
She also helps with parenting strain, career questions, anger, intimacy-related issues and coping with life changes. Additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment issues, communication and commitment problems, codependency, and challenges around blended families. In sessions she uses a mix of approaches tailored to each person.
Sessions tend to be conversational and reflective, with practical tools added when useful. Helen aims to create an honest, gently challenging space where people can test new ways of thinking and behaving. Therapy is offered to adults and to young people aged 11 and up.
Sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or messaging to people in the United Kingdom and internationally. Helen works collaboratively to set goals and pace the work to each person’s needs and circumstances.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Helen lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
- Coaching
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Helen names
- Existential Therapy
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
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Online support
Therapeutic approaches and online therapy
Existential therapy looks at the big questions people carry - meaning, choice and identity - and helps people notice where they feel boxed in. It suits those wrestling with emptiness, life transitions or a gap between who they are and who they want to be.Attachment-based approaches focus on how early relationships shape current patterns. This work helps people understand repeated reactions in close relationships and build different ways of connecting. Client-centred therapy emphasises an open, non-judgemental listening stance that lets people lead the conversation while the therapist reflects and supports their own insights.
Finding the right blend of approaches is part of the process. Helen will work collaboratively to identify what feels most helpful based on a person’s concerns, goals and preferences. She adapts methods as the work progresses rather than sticking to a fixed plan.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when body language matters. Phone sessions can fit shorter check-ins or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for ongoing reflection, brief check-ins between sessions or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does Helen help with?
She supports people facing stress, anxiety, relationship and family difficulties, low self-esteem, addictions, trauma and grief. She also helps with parenting strain, career transitions, anger and coping with life changes.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is warm, open and gently challenging. Sessions are conversational and reflective, with practical tools offered when they fit the person’s goals.
What is her background and experience?
She has eight years of practice and brings personal experience of overcoming people-pleasing and abandonment fears. This informs the empathy she brings to clinical work.
Which credentials and location are listed?
She holds a Postgraduate Diploma from Leeds Beckett University, a Diploma in Hypnotherapy and is a member of the BACP. She practices from the United Kingdom.
Can sessions be held in languages other than English?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How does cost and payment work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
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