About Helen
Helen Hernandez is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Colorado who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, eating concerns, and self-esteem struggles. She writes in a direct, down-to-earth way and focuses on practical steps you can use between sessions. Helen aims to make therapy feel manageable when life feels messy.
She uses a collaborative style that centers the client's goals. Sessions combine time to process difficult feelings with concrete tools for coping.
Background and approach
That might mean learning breathing and grounding skills, practicing new ways to handle worries, or working through painful memories at a pace that feels right. Helen has four years of clinical experience and adapts her approach to each person's situation. She pays attention to background factors like culture, family of origin, and identity to make therapy relevant.
She also supports people navigating complex areas such as attachment concerns, body image, and sexuality. She is comfortable addressing trauma-related struggles, including sexual assault, post-traumatic stress, and self-harm thoughts, and she offers thoughtful care around eating and food-related issues. Helen also engages with topics that can carry added shame, like BDSM, kink, and non-normative relationship structures.
Sessions are offered in English and delivered online through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first session.
How Helen Uses Practical Techniques Online
Helen often draws on evidence-based techniques that focus on present needs and skills. One common approach teaches grounding and emotion-regulation strategies to reduce intense anxiety and stress; these are concrete practices to use when feelings spike. Another approach emphasizes processing trauma in manageable steps, helping people make sense of painful memories while building coping skills to stay steady during sessions.Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which techniques to try, and they check in often to adjust pacing and methods as needed.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people work face-to-face without travel. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for shorter check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options help fit therapy into busy days and different routines.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Coping with life changes
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English