Helen Ridlington-White, BACP

Helen Ridlington-White is a psychotherapist with 28 years of clinical experience in the United Kingdom. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). Helen focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, grief, depression and relationship difficulties using an integrative style.

She works in a way that puts the person at the centre. Sessions are conversational and paced to each person’s needs. Helen welcomes different ways of expressing yourself, including creative arts when that feels helpful.

Her background includes extensive NHS counselling work and a foundation in child development and counselling theory. She has experience supporting people with both typical development and neurodiversity, and she also supervises students and professionals.

In practical terms Helen offers online options such as video discussion, voice-only sessions, live chat or messaging. This allows people to choose what fits their life and communication style. Sessions aim to deepen self-understanding and support personal change.

Helen draws on multiple therapeutic approaches to meet each person’s goals. She uses client-centred ways of working to build trust, psychodynamic thinking to look at patterns from the past, Jungian ideas about symbols and meaning, mindfulness to promote present-moment awareness, and DBT skills for coping. These are blended to suit each person’s needs.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online work

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening, acceptance and supporting a person to find their own solutions; it helps when someone needs a non-judgemental space to talk and make sense of feelings.

Psychodynamic work looks at patterns that may come from earlier life experiences and how they show up now; this can help when repeating relationship or emotional patterns are causing distress.

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, or DBT, brings concrete skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance and handling conflict in relationships. It is useful when practical coping tools are needed alongside reflective work.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, and then adapt methods over time. This is a collaborative process aimed at matching the approach to your needs.

Online therapy makes it easier to fit sessions into busy lives. Video calls offer a face-to-face feel, phone sessions work well when video is difficult, and live chat or messaging can suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options increase flexibility and make it simpler to keep momentum between sessions.