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Specialises in

• Counselling
• Psychotherapy

• Short Term Psychodynamic Therapy

• Transactional Analysis (TA)

Offers

• Face-to-face consultations
• Video and telephone consultations

About me

I am a registered Clinical Psychotherapist, Art Therapist and Counsellor, providing Psychotherapy, and Art Therapy in my North London practice [N16].

With over 12 years experience in Private Practice, my particular expertise is in working with anxiety, depression, low self esteem, family issues and bereavement, as well as issues relating to addiction, trauma, OCD, ADHD, and Austism.� I acknowledge the power dynamics within relationships and offer empathic and informed therapy for individuals exploring identity and relationship dynamics.�

Previous to Private Practice, I worked as a Manager Therapist with a diverse Mental Health population in an outpatient organisation, and have experience of working in NHS Mental Health services, as an Honorary Psychotherapist at Central and North West London Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit.

I have an MA in Integrative Arts Psychotherapy from the Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education in which I trained for four years.� I am also accredited and registered with UKCP and HCPC as a Psychotherapist, a Creative Arts Therapist and a Clinical Supervisor.� I integrate a Psychodynamic and Jungian informed approach whilst using creative, sensory and body based methods.� I offer a trauma-informed perspective which is in keeping with the latest Neuroscience and Attachment research.� My integrative approach gives us a range of options and means that together we can find the ideal way of working to suit you.

Whatever your reason for therapy, my aim is to create a non-judgmental and therapeutic environment where you can be authentic and where challenging feelings, thoughts and experiences can be communicated, sensed and understood.?

Areas of interest

Abuse; Addiction; Anger management; Anorexia nervosa; Anxiety; Attachment disorder; Avoidant personality disorder; Bereavement; Binge-eating disorder; Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD); Bulimia nervosa; Bullying; Cancer; Career counselling; Carer support; Chronic fatigue syndrome/ME; Dependent personality disorder; Depression; Discrimination; Dissociation; Domestic abuse; Eating disorders; Emotional abuse; Family issues; Feeling sad; Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD); Health anxiety; High sensitivity; Hoarding; Infertility; LGBTQ+ counselling; Loneliness; Low self-confidence; Low self-esteem; Mental health; Miscarriage; Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD); Panic attacks; Passive-aggressive behaviour; Phobias; Physical abuse; Postnatal depression; Racism; Redundancy; Relationship problems; Schizotypal personality disorder; Seasonal affective disorder (SAD); Self-harm; Separation; Divorce; Sexual abuse; Social anxiety; Spirituality; Stress; Suicidal thoughts; Trauma; Work-related stress

Specialist interests and expertise in the following physical conditions

• Cardiac conditions
• Eating disorders

• Musculoskeletal conditions
• Pain management

• Psychophysiological disorders

Medical secretaries

• Helen Vance
• 7 Arbor Court London N16 0QU
• helenevance@yahoo.com