Helen Trinh
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About me
Over time, you may have come to recognise lasting sensations of being overwhelmed and intensely stressed, or feeling ridden with anxiety and self doubt. You may be living silently with extended periods of sadness, or with a sense of intense vulnerability and fear. Satisfying the need for purpose and direction is noticeably challenging right now, particularly if you are struggling to cope with the added pressures of everyday life.
Therapy can help to provide you with the insight and support that is necessary to build and repair connections that you may have struggled to establish or ones that have broken down. This might be experienced as difficulties that you have with your identity and self-worth or, feeling disconnected and anxious when meeting with the world and those around you. You may be experiencing a lack of trust and satisfaction within your personal relationships or feel that you have been living with a pervasive sense of emptiness for far too long.
A decision you have come to now, is that you no longer want to endure the problems as they are, and to avoid things spiralling further, you recognise the benefits of choosing to prioritise yourself and the support that may be required to restore your mental health and wellbeing.
What you can expect.
I approach the presenting problem from the personal experience of the individual. Through careful exploration, you will be invited to thoughtfully examine your personal experience of life and living, while gaining clarity and self-compassion in the process. Both which are necessary, in order to work through the very challenges that may have led you to a place of such despair, often marked by feelings of resentment, anxiety and loneliness.
Therapy offers the opportunity to mobilise and shift your position, of facing seemingly insurmountable obstacles, to one of reaching a place of tangible hope and progress.
Client testimonials can be found at the bottom of this page.
Practice description.
I am a qualified individual & couple's therapist, working with people aged 18 years and over.
Working with a pluralistic framework, my therapeutic approach is based on a philosophical and relational perspective, drawing from various models such as humanistic, cognitive, systemic, psychodynamic, and creative experiential methods. Where it is beneficial, I can also draw from broader mental health and mentorship interventions.
The primary therapeutic objective is to assist people to achieve clarity and change that is meaningful and self-validating. Individuals will be safely supported to unpick and work through the challenges being experienced, with the ultimate goal of identifying and moving towards what it is they truly desire for themselves and in their relationships.
Training, qualifications & experience
As an integrated trauma therapist and mental health practitioner, I have over 10 years of experience in health care, education, and third sector services. I am skilled in creating secure and confidential environments, in which I deliver professional and dependable services to a diverse range of people dealing with a wide spectrum of issues, including those affected by trauma and severe distress. Given my cultural sensitivity, I am adept at handling a diverse population and have a demonstrated track record of forming meaningful connections with clients from our initial contact.
I am a qualified couples counsellor, registered MBACP, and a member of the Association for Family Therapy. I work with both individuals and couples to provide brief and long-term therapy and tailored specific mentorship.
Member organisations
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred). Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision. Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training. All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Main areas of work include: depression, anxiety, social anxiety, relationship and family dynamics, interracial challenges, generational/family trauma, feelings of shame, guilt, apathy, hopelessness, loss, and grief.
I also have extensive experience supporting issues affecting young people, workplace stress/problems, peer pressure, academic stress, major life transitions, social isolation, and trauma impacted by gender/sexuality issues, domestic and sexual abuse.
Therapies offered
Fees
From £55.00
Additional information
Online fees
Individual counselling (weekly) - from £55.00
Couple counselling - from £80.00
It can be possible to access in person sessions, please enquire.
Alternate options
- Stand alone, single therapy sessions (known as Single Session Therapy).
- Extended ad hoc couple counselling sessions.
- Tailored specific mentorship
- Fortnightly sessions
These can be delivered up to 1hr 15 minutes. Please enquire for rates.
Further information
Testimonials
L - Helen was a fantastic counsellor. It was my first time with talking therapy and she really helped me to understand where my anxiety and low mood was coming from. The sessions could be challenging but I feel that Helen really guided me through those difficult feelings. I feel it made a huge difference to my life and how I view myself and my feelings of anxiety that I’ve struggled with as long as I can remember. Helen was always professional, compassionate and set me at ease. I would recommend the service and I would also consider coming back, should I feel the need to return to therapy at some point.
G - Helen has been an incredible counsellor to me during our 2 years together. She has helped me through one of the hardest times in my life and she was a safe person I could confide in. She has helped me see things from a different perspective and also highlighted that I am worthy. She was always patient and understanding and never judged me in my decisions or what was discussed in sessions. I’m very grateful that I had Helen has a counsellor and I recommend her highly.
S - I'm nearly 60 and have spent my whole life not liking myself and feeling unworthy, mostly because of a negative childhood experience. I am now the happiest, most present, and most at peace I have ever been. I can't thank Helen enough. I know this will (is already having!) a positive effect on my children and relationships going forward. I have been to counselling many times over the years and no-one has ever ever got through. This has been the best use of money I have ever spent.
L - I have found the time talking to Helen immensely helpful. Helen was always compassionate and patient with me and has helped me to better understand and accept my relationship with grief and with myself more generally. It has felt so validating to have the space to explore my feelings and feel listened to, and to have support and empathy when that was difficult. I feel a significant difference compared to a year or so ago when we started and now feel better placed to approach situations in a way that’s best for me. I have recommended Helen to friends and would do so again! I would definitely consider revisiting counselling in a few years for further self-reflection and exploration, and I will endeavour to implement these values into my daily life and continue to check in with myself regularly. I am so grateful to have had the opportunity and time to work together.
A - I started therapy because I constantly noticed patterns in my day-to-day adult life that made me question their triggers or origins. The sessions have greatly helped me fully comprehend how family upbringing can impact my adult relationships. Helen has been able to understand where I’m coming from with experiences related to my family and being a minority in the western world. She has assisted me in understanding and delving deeper into my relationships and simply the people around me. Helen has been an incredibly supportive therapist through these sessions, which allowed me to deepen my relationship with myself and helped me to learn to prioritise my own feelings and well-being, I never realised how much talking about feelings, or even just talking about myself, could help in analysing your surroundings and recognise areas for personal growth from within.
Relationship Counselling
H & D - The reason for us seeking counselling was to try and repair a total breakdown in our mother and daughter relationship. The first joint session was extremely daunting for us both especially having not seen each other for over a year but Helen put us both at ease immediately. Helen showed us both empathy and objectivity throughout the whole process – never taking sides, always staying calm and in control of the, at times, heated discussions. Helen has enabled us to see the deep rooted, historical issues and events from both our perspectives, while supporting us to understand the impact of our actions and behaviours. This has been an invaluable and an eye-opening experience, one that we have both learnt from thanks to Helen, and her approach to facilitating, what I thought at the time was an impossible situation. Helen has been 100% instrumental in bringing my daughter and me back together and I will never be able to thank her enough.
N & M - I found counselling sessions with Helen to be really helpful. From the first session Helen created a safe and trusting space where me and my partner were listened to and found ways to listen to each other. This has helped us make positive changes in the way we communicate with each other, which is what we were hoping for.
