About Helena
Dr. Helena Stevens is a licensed professional counselor practicing in Wisconsin with ten years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, depression, and work-related struggles.
She frames therapy as a collaborative process and views each person as the expert on their own life. She centers sessions on practical steps and the client’s goals. Sessions often focus on building coping skills, improving self-esteem, and addressing relationship and intimacy-related concerns.
Background and approach
She also helps people facing grief, trauma and abuse, parenting stress, and compassion fatigue. Her approach draws on client-centered work to follow each person’s lead. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers skills for emotional regulation and managing intense reactions. She also integrates narrative and existential ideas to help people make sense of their story and find meaning after difficult experiences. This mix allows for both skill-building and deeper reflection depending on what someone needs.
In sessions she aims to create a steady, respectful space for honest conversation. The work is practical and person-focused, with attention to small changes that add up. People who want support sorting through life transitions or breaking cycles of shame and avoidance often find this style helpful.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening closely and following the client’s lead to set goals and choose next steps; it helps people feel heard and supported while they work on practical problems. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, and patterns tied to addiction. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches concrete skills for managing strong emotions, improving relationships, and handling crises without making things worse.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will review your goals, try methods that match your needs, and adjust as progress is made. That collaborative process means techniques can shift between skill practice and deeper narrative or existential reflection depending on what helps you most.
Online therapy offers flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let you talk face-to-face for skill demonstrations and deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a session needs to fit into a short break. Live chat and messaging allow brief check-ins, step-by-step coaching, and continued contact between longer meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around busy schedules and life demands.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
Also listed
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English