Helen Lamming, NCPS

Helen Lamming NCPS helps people facing relationship strain, family conflict, intimacy concerns, parenting challenges and anger. She brings calm, practical support and encourages small steps that can change daily life. Helen works in English and accepts international clients.

She uses straightforward, person-centred ways of working that put the individual's experience first. Sessions focus on what matters most to the client and on building clearer communication, safer emotional connection and better routines at home. Helen draws on approaches that look at attachment, emotions and internal parts to understand recurring patterns.

Helen has around 11 years of practice and more than 4,000 hours of counselling work. Her background includes long experience at Relate where she focused on relationship and family counselling. She holds professional accreditation with NCPS and a CPCAB Certificate of Proficiency.

Her education includes a Master of Education in Psychology of Education, a BA (Hons) in Psychology, a PGCE and earlier degrees in English and History. Helen is a Registered Member of CPCAB and follows their Code of Ethics. She also receives regular clinical supervision.

She offers both short-term work for a set number of sessions and open-ended agreements. To begin, clients use the continue button on this profile, complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule according to the therapist's availability.

How Helen's approach translates to online therapy

Helen draws on attachment-based work to look at how early connection patterns influence current relationships. This approach helps people understand why they react in certain ways and supports building safer emotional bonds.

She also uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy, which focuses on felt emotion and changing interaction patterns between partners or within relationships. EFT can be useful for improving communication and rebuilding closeness after breaches of trust.

Finding the right approach is part of the process and will be collaborative. Helen will talk with each person about goals, preferences and what feels most useful, and then shape sessions around that plan. Clients often review progress together and adjust the focus as needed.

The biography states she now offers online counselling. Please confirm the specific session formats available before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. It can also make attending from a different region easier for international clients. Helen aims to make sessions practical and suited to everyday life while helping clients explore emotions, patterns and relationship goals.