Helen Luckins

I help children manage big feelings such as anxiety, low mood, anger, low self-esteem and grief using therapeutic play and mindfulness.

My work with young people and adults uses a creative counselling approach alongside mindfulness techniques to identify and manage difficult feelings and remove emotional blocks to happiness and success.

I also work with parents who require additional support with their own emotional wellbeing and their relationship with their children.

I work from a large log cabin in my garden in Ashcott, a small village 9 miles to the East of Bridgwater, and have a practice room in Langport. 

Once I have received your enquiry we will arrange a time to talk on the phone and then set up an appointment for an initial consultation. This is an opportunity for me to explain how I work and also an ideal way for you to ask any questions and consider if I am the right therapist for you or your child. There is a small fee of £20 for this first session which can be face to face on online depending on Corona Virus restrictions. 

I have worked as a teacher in early years, primary, secondary and alternative education for many years. I have been working as a counsellor now for 14 years, a supervisor for 4 years and am now a trainer with Cruse Bereavement Care.  I can offer experiential training for working creatively with adults, children and young people. Training includes therapeutic play for children and young people and sand tray for all ages. I am an integrative counsellor offering a child/person centred approach with a special interest in play, creativity, mindfulness,  psychoeducation and bereavement. 

I can offer 1:1 or group sessions.

My model of supervision is an integration of humanistic and psychodynamic models of supervision offering congruence, unconditional positive regard, empathic understanding and attunement alongside an awareness of resistance, projections, transferences, counter- transferences and parallel process. I like to make use of creative interventions to raise awareness of these unconscious processes and develop a more intuitive approach to the work. I aim to offer a supportive balance of restorative, formative and normative functions (Inskipp and Proctor 1995) using Hawkins and Shohet’s 7 Eyed Model (2012) to help focus the work. My hourly rate is £45 but I am happy to offer a discount charging £30 to supervisees still in training, and £40 for newly qualified counsellors in their first year of private practice. My specialisms are working with children, young people, young adults, bereavement, systemic and family therapy and creative practice. 

I have practice rooms in Langport, South Somerset and also work from a large log cabin in my garden in Ashcott, a village 9 miles east of Bridgwater. I offer online supervision via Zoom. 

For all supervisees I offer an initial consultation for a concession of £20 to help you decide if my approach and experience suits your needs.