Helen Lamming, NCPS

Helen Lamming approaches therapy from the perspective that each person is the expert of their own life, bringing strengths and resilience to the work of change. She offers steady support and practical guidance as people take the often-difficult first steps toward greater wellbeing and more satisfying relationships.

Helen is a UK-registered professional with NCPS accreditation and more than 11 years of clinical experience, including over 4,000 hours of direct counselling. Her background includes extensive work with Relate, where she specialised in relationship and family counselling. She now practises from Central London and provides online-only counselling to individuals, couples and families.

Her practice focuses on relationship, family and intimacy-related issues, parenting concerns and anger, with additional experience supporting attachment issues, autism and Asperger syndrome, avoidant personality patterns, BDSM and kink-related matters, blended family dynamics, codependency, communication difficulties, dissociation, fertility challenges and separation or divorce. Helen is a Registered Member of CPCAB and follows their Code of Ethics, and she receives regular clinical supervision as part of her professional practice.

Helen offers flexible arrangements to suit different needs, including short-term agreements for a set number of sessions or open-ended work. She aims to create a respectful, inclusive environment that welcomes people of all genders, sexual identities, ethnicities, neurodiversity profiles, visible and invisible disabilities, faiths and backgrounds.

Therapeutic Approaches for Online Relationship and Family Work

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns of connection and security formed in close relationships. It helps people and couples explore how early attachment styles influence current interactions, offering ways to build more reliable emotional bonds and improve intimacy.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) is a structured approach that helps partners and individuals identify and express underlying emotions that drive relationship patterns. It is often used for couples wanting to repair disconnection and for people seeking clearer emotional communication.

Client-Centered Therapy prioritises the client’s own perspective, providing an empathic, non-judgmental space where individuals can explore their values, choices and goals. This approach supports self-directed growth and can be helpful for a wide range of relationship, family and personal concerns.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Helen works collaboratively with clients to identify which methods fit their needs, goals and preferences, adjusting the work as understanding deepens and circumstances change.

Online therapy with Helen uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to increase flexibility and access. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work and family commitments, to continue work across locations, and to choose the format that feels most comfortable for the client while working with registered professionals and therapists.