Helen Lamming, NCPS

Helen Lamming helps people dealing with relationship strain, family conflict, intimacy-related concerns, parenting challenges and problems with anger. She is direct and supportive, and she encourages people to use their own strengths when finding a way forward. Helen holds NCPS accreditation and brings 11 years of experience to her work. Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients for online counselling.

Helen uses a calm, respectful style in sessions. She draws on several approaches that focus on feelings, attachment and internal parts to understand what keeps patterns repeating. In practice this looks like making space to talk through painful moments, identifying patterns in relationships, and trying different ways of communicating.

Her background includes many years at Relate, where she specialised in relationship and family counselling during the week. She has also completed a Master of Education in Psychology of Education and holds CPCAB diplomas in family and relationship counselling. Helen has accumulated over 4,000 hours of counselling work.

She offers both short-term agreements for a set number of sessions and longer open-ended work. Helen aims to work collaboratively, tailoring each session to a person’s goals and the realities of their life. She is available most afternoons, with additional appointments on Fridays and weekends.

Sessions are run online only, so people can connect from different locations in the United Kingdom and internationally. Helen approaches clients with kindness and respect, and she welcomes people of all genders, sexual identities, ethnicities and neurodiversity.

How Helen’s approaches translate to online therapy

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on the ways early relationships shape how people connect now. In sessions this often means exploring patterns of closeness and distance and trying small changes to build more secure connections. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centres on feelings in relationships and helps people identify and express core emotions to shift stuck interaction cycles. It is useful for couples or individuals wanting clearer emotional communication. Internal Family Systems views the mind as made up of parts that have different roles; therapy helps people understand and unburden those parts so they can respond more calmly to stressors.

Finding the right way of working is part of the process. Helen will discuss these approaches with each person and agree a plan that fits their goals and preferences. That collaborative choice can be reviewed as therapy progresses so sessions stay useful and relevant.

Online therapy offers practical benefits for people with busy lives or who live far from central services. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low, live chat suits brief check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy around work, childcare or travel and let therapists work with people in different locations.