Helen Allen, BACP, NCPS

Helen Allen is an integrative counsellor based in the United Kingdom who brings six years of clinical experience to her private practice and charity work. She combines specialist training in eating disorders with broad experience supporting people through anxiety, depression, grief, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, and a wide range of life transitions and stressors.

She holds a CPCAB Level 5 qualification in Psychotherapeutic Counselling, a senior diploma-level training that prepares practitioners to work with complex presentations, and an Advanced Diploma Master Practitioner qualification in Eating Disorders and Obesity from the National Centre for Eating Disorders and the British Psychological Society - advanced study focused on Enhanced CBT techniques, nutritional awareness, and evidence-based interventions for anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, emotional eating, ARFID, obesity and body image concerns. Helen is a registered member of BACP and an accredited member of NCPS, which reflect her standing with recognised professional bodies in the UK.

Alongside her private work, Helen collaborates with a local eating disorders charity and has volunteered with a national bereavement organisation, experience that informs her sensitive approach to complex emotional needs. Her practice is grounded in person-centred values and draws on psychodynamic ideas, somatic processing, mindfulness, and cognitive behavioural tools so that therapy can be tailored to each person’s goals and history.

Helen aims to create a calm, non-judgemental space where clients can explore what is holding them back, reconnect with inner resources, and work toward meaningful, lasting change. She supports people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or in need of practical and emotional guidance as they navigate recovery and growth.