Helen Travis

First of all, yes, I do have new client availability for September 2026.

Sessions are currently online only via Zoom, Monday to Thursday, with daytime and early evening appointments available.

I offer a free 30-minute consultation so we can meet and see whether my approach feels right for you. Take a read of the rest of my profile and if you feel you may want to work this way with me then you can book in for a chat at www.helentravis.com/book-online

What are you signing up for if you want to work with me?

We usually work weekly for the first 4-6 weeks so we have the chance to build that sense of being known, connected and safe. I’ve found the work tends to go much better when we have that foundation, so it is helpful if you have space for that commitment before we begin.

Then, once we have established that connection, you can choose session spacing and timing to fit your life and process. Some of my clients love the same time slot each week, others love the flexibility to book in wherever suits them each time.

As our work progresses, most clients reduce the regularity of sessions before eventually ending, knowing they can come back for one-offs if needed. There is never any pressure to fit into a traditional therapeutic schedule from my end. We are all unique and I believe in providing you with as much choice as I feasibly can. I am happy to let you know what I recommend for you as we go along if that’s helpful too.

You can book or change your sessions up until 24 hours before the start time on my website. Please do take the chance for a free consultation before we begin and we can discuss this and lots more.

What if your problem isn’t that you haven’t tried hard enough, found the right modality or therapist? Of course, talking helps. Insight matters. But understanding why you feel the way you do isn’t the same as being ok. This is where my work fits in.

Maybe you:

• Already understand what happened to you, your ‘why’?
• Recognise your patterns?
• Read the books?
• Spend long nights talking to friends and/or your favourite AI?
• Have an algorithm that seems to think you need fixing?
• Tried lots of therapy?
• Have a diagnosis that made your whole life make more sense; or not, and you trust what you know to be true for you?

And yet all this hasn’t changed how it feels to be you. You leave one difficult situation only to find yourself repeating the same loop with a different person, job or place. You want something to shift, even though you wonder why you’re the one always doing the work.

I could well be the therapist for you if…

You’ve heard about IFS or parts work and wondered whether it could finally help something shift.

You want to work with what happens in your body as well as your mind, but choosing between somatic modalities feels like a needle in a haystack.

You want someone who understands trauma, attachment, neuroscience and nervous system responses, but won’t treat you as a collection of old wounds or assume we need to trawl through childhood before we work with your life now.

Figuring out the modality isn’t your job, it’s mine. I’ve worked with counselling clients for 15 years, continually learning through further training, my own personal development and hundreds of client relationships. That means I can work confidently with what is actually happening instead of making you fit one method. And I’ll tell you if someone else is better placed to help.

So, if you want to understand yourself without living in your head forever, bring your body into the room, go deep without endlessly revisiting the past and ultimately do this for yourself, I’d like you to get in touch.

How do we do this?

My superpower is seeing and pulling at the threads between things that can feel completely separate when you are living inside them. Working with people from all walks of life and corners of the world helps me zoom out, tune in to the characters and relationships around you, and see patterns that are hard to spot from the middle of your own life.

The relationship matters too. Therapy is one of the few places you get to practise being 100% yourself. We can put the armour down one piece at a time. Showing up is enough.

If autism, ADHD or AuDHD is part of how you make sense of yourself, that can be part of our work too. I’m neurodivergent myself, but I won’t assume your experience looks like mine. I want to understand how you experience the world and, together, curate a space that works for you, rather than squeezing you into a neurotypical version of therapy. You don’t need to be like me, live like me, believe what I believe or fit neatly into any box for us to work well together.

My role is to hold the space, boundaries, accountability and connection, offer steadiness, kindness and curiosity. I can help light the path, but I am not the path.

Your role is to keep showing up for yourself, make the choices, test what fits and learn to trust that you are the expert on you.

I will care deeply about your wellbeing, but I am not here to care for you. That’s your job: learning to care deeply for yourself.

The aim is not to remove every difficult feeling or make you permanently calm. Over time, I want what we do together to become yours: to notice sooner, ask different questions, know your yes, no and maybe, make different choices, do hard things without losing yourself and find your way back when life knocks you off course.

Our free 30-minute consultation is simply a chance for us to meet, talk about what has brought you here and see whether the way I work feels right for you.

You do not need to prepare anything or know exactly what to say; but you can if you want to. Bring notes if that helps, or just turn up with no idea where to begin.

If we decide to continue, your first paid session is not a formal assessment and there is no expectation that you tell me your entire history.

We begin with what is happening now. You do not need to arrive with a perfectly organised story, explain everything at once, or go backwards before we can start.

I will listen closely, ask questions and pay attention to patterns, shifts and what seems to be happening underneath the story you are telling me. I may ask you to slow something down, notice where you feel it, question whether what you are telling yourself is the only truth, or get curious about what a protective part might be trying to achieve.

Sometimes I might stop you in the middle of a story and ask what just happened in your body, or whether you actually believe the thing you have just said. Sometimes we will sit with something. Sometimes we will laugh.

You can be honest, doubtful, frustrated, challenging, unsure, relieved, angry or quiet. You are always welcome to disagree with me, question something I say, tell me I’ve got it wrong, say you do not want to go somewhere or change direction. Your no matters here.

I will be clear about the boundaries and structure of our work so you know what to expect. There is room for lightness and openness as well as the hard stuff; you do not have to arrive ready to do therapy “properly”.

You can read my counselling agreement in advance at www.helentravis.com/terms-and-conditions

There is no pressure to commit to long-term therapy. We keep checking what you need as the work develops.

First of all, yes, I do have new client availability for September 2026.

Sessions are currently online only via Zoom, Monday to Thursday, with daytime and early evening appointments available.

I offer a free 30-minute consultation so we can meet and see whether my approach feels right for you. Take a read of the rest of my profile and if you feel you may want to work this way with me then you can book in for a chat at www.helentravis.com/book-online

What are you signing up for if you want to work with me?

We usually work weekly for the first 4-6 weeks so we have the chance to build that sense of being known, connected and safe. I’ve found the work tends to go much better when we have that foundation, so it is helpful if you have space for that commitment before we begin.

Then, once we have established that connection, you can choose session spacing and timing to fit your life and process. Some of my clients love the same time slot each week, others love the flexibility to book in wherever suits them each time.

As our work progresses, most clients reduce the regularity of sessions before eventually ending, knowing they can come back for one-offs if needed. There is never any pressure to fit into a traditional therapeutic schedule from my end. We are all unique and I believe in providing you with as much choice as I feasibly can. I am happy to let you know what I recommend for you as we go along if that’s helpful too.

You can book or change your sessions up until 24 hours before the start time on my website. Please do take the chance for a free consultation before we begin and we can discuss this and lots more.

What if your problem isn’t that you haven’t tried hard enough, found the right modality or therapist? Of course, talking helps. Insight matters. But understanding why you feel the way you do isn’t the same as being ok. This is where my work fits in.

Maybe you:

• Already understand what happened to you, your ‘why’?
• Recognise your patterns?
• Read the books?
• Spend long nights talking to friends and/or your favourite AI?
• Have an algorithm that seems to think you need fixing?
• Tried lots of therapy?
• Have a diagnosis that made your whole life make more sense; or not, and you trust what you know to be true for you?

And yet all this hasn’t changed how it feels to be you. You leave one difficult situation only to find yourself repeating the same loop with a different person, job or place. You want something to shift, even though you wonder why you’re the one always doing the work.

I could well be the therapist for you if…

• You’ve heard about IFS or parts work and wondered whether it could finally help something shift.
• You want to work with what happens in your body as well as your mind, but choosing between somatic modalities feels like a needle in a haystack.
• You want someone who understands trauma, attachment, neuroscience and nervous system responses, but won’t treat you as a collection of old wounds or assume we need to trawl through childhood before we work with your life now.

Figuring out the modality isn’t your job, it’s mine. I’ve worked with counselling clients for 15 years, continually learning through further training, my own personal development and hundreds of client relationships. That means I can work confidently with what is actually happening instead of making you fit one method. And I’ll tell you if someone else is better placed to help.

So, if you want to understand yourself without living in your head forever, bring your body into the room, go deep without endlessly revisiting the past and ultimately do this for yourself, I’d like you to get in touch.

How do we do this?

My superpower is seeing and pulling at the threads between things that can feel completely separate when you are living inside them. Working with people from all walks of life and corners of the world helps me zoom out, tune in to the characters and relationships around you, and see patterns that are hard to spot from the middle of your own life.

The relationship matters too. Therapy is one of the few places you get to practise being 100% yourself. We can put the armour down one piece at a time. Showing up is enough.

If autism, ADHD or AuDHD is part of how you make sense of yourself, that can be part of our work too. I’m neurodivergent myself, but I won’t assume your experience looks like mine. I want to understand how you experience the world and, together, curate a space that works for you, rather than squeezing you into a neurotypical version of therapy. You don’t need to be like me, live like me, believe what I believe or fit neatly into any box for us to work well together.

My role is to hold the space, boundaries, accountability and connection, offer steadiness, kindness and curiosity. 

I can help light the path, but I am not the path.

Your role is to keep showing up for yourself, make the choices, test what fits and learn to trust that you are the expert on you.

I will care deeply about your wellbeing, but I am not here to care for you. That’s your job: learning to care deeply for yourself.

The aim is not to remove every difficult feeling or make you permanently calm. Over time, I want what we do together to become yours: to notice sooner, ask different questions, know your yes, no and maybe, make different choices, do hard things without losing yourself and find your way back when life knocks you off course.

Our free 30-minute consultation is simply a chance for us to meet, talk about what has brought you here and see whether the way I work feels right for you.

You do not need to prepare anything or know exactly what to say; but you can if you want to. Bring notes if that helps, or just turn up with no idea where to begin.

If we decide to continue, your first paid session is not a formal assessment and there is no expectation that you tell me your entire history.

We begin with what is happening now. You do not need to arrive with a perfectly organised story, explain everything at once, or go backwards before we can start.

I will listen closely, ask questions and pay attention to patterns, shifts and what seems to be happening underneath the story you are telling me. I may ask you to slow something down, notice where you feel it, question whether what you are telling yourself is the only truth, or get curious about what a protective part might be trying to achieve.

Sometimes I might stop you in the middle of a story and ask what just happened in your body, or whether you actually believe the thing you have just said. Sometimes we will sit with something. Sometimes we will laugh.

You can be honest, doubtful, frustrated, challenging, unsure, relieved, angry or quiet. You are always welcome to disagree with me, question something I say, tell me I’ve got it wrong, say you do not want to go somewhere or change direction. Your no matters here.

I will be clear about the boundaries and structure of our work so you know what to expect. There is room for lightness and openness as well as the hard stuff; you do not have to arrive ready to do therapy “properly”.

You can read my counselling agreement in advance at www.helentravis.com/terms-and-conditions

There is no pressure to commit to long-term therapy. We keep checking what you need as the work develops.

First of all, yes, I do have new client availability for September 2026.

Sessions are currently online only via Zoom, Monday to Thursday, with daytime and early evening appointments available.

I offer a free 30-minute consultation so we can meet and see whether my approach feels right for you. Take a read of the rest of my profile and if you feel you may want to work this way with me then you can book in for a chat at www.helentravis.com/book-online

What are you signing up for if you want to work with me?

We usually work weekly for the first 4-6 weeks so we have the chance to build that sense of being known, connected and safe. I’ve found the work tends to go much better when we have that foundation, so it is helpful if you have space for that commitment before we begin.

Then, once we have established that connection, you can choose session spacing and timing to fit your life and process. Some of my clients love the same time slot each week, others love the flexibility to book in wherever suits them each time.

As our work progresses, most clients reduce the regularity of sessions before eventually ending, knowing they can come back for one-offs if needed. There is never any pressure to fit into a traditional therapeutic schedule from my end. We are all unique and I believe in providing you with as much choice as I feasibly can. I am happy to let you know what I recommend for you as we go along if that’s helpful too.

You can book or change your sessions up until 24 hours before the start time on my website. Please do take the chance for a free consultation before we begin and we can discuss this and lots more.

What if your problem isn’t that you haven’t tried hard enough, found the right modality or therapist? Of course, talking helps. Insight matters. But understanding why you feel the way you do isn’t the same as being ok. This is where my work fits in.

Maybe you:

• Already understand what happened to you, your ‘why’?
• Recognise your patterns?
• Read the books?
• Spend long nights talking to friends and/or your favourite AI?
• Have an algorithm that seems to think you need fixing?
• Tried lots of therapy?
• Have a diagnosis that made your whole life make more sense; or not, and you trust what you know to be true for you?

And yet all this hasn’t changed how it feels to be you. You leave one difficult situation only to find yourself repeating the same loop with a different person, job or place. You want something to shift, even though you wonder why you’re the one always doing the work.

I could well be the therapist for you if…

You’ve heard about IFS or parts work and wondered whether it could finally help something shift.

You want to work with what happens in your body as well as your mind, but choosing between somatic modalities feels like a needle in a haystack.

You want someone who understands trauma, attachment, neuroscience and nervous system responses, but won’t treat you as a collection of old wounds or assume we need to trawl through childhood before we work with your life now.

Figuring out the modality isn’t your job, it’s mine. I’ve worked with counselling clients for 15 years, continually learning through further training, my own personal development and hundreds of client relationships. That means I can work confidently with what is actually happening instead of making you fit one method. And I’ll tell you if someone else is better placed to help.

So, if you want to understand yourself without living in your head forever, bring your body into the room, go deep without endlessly revisiting the past and ultimately do this for yourself, I’d like you to get in touch.

How do we do this?

My superpower is seeing and pulling at the threads between things that can feel completely separate when you are living inside them. Working with people from all walks of life and corners of the world helps me zoom out, tune in to the characters and relationships around you, and see patterns that are hard to spot from the middle of your own life.

The relationship matters too. Therapy is one of the few places you get to practise being 100% yourself. We can put the armour down one piece at a time. Showing up is enough.

If autism, ADHD or AuDHD is part of how you make sense of yourself, that can be part of our work too. I’m neurodivergent myself, but I won’t assume your experience looks like mine. I want to understand how you experience the world and, together, curate a space that works for you, rather than squeezing you into a neurotypical version of therapy. You don’t need to be like me, live like me, believe what I believe or fit neatly into any box for us to work well together.

My role is to hold the space, boundaries, accountability and connection, offer steadiness, kindness and curiosity. 

I can help light the path, but I am not the path.

Your role is to keep showing up for yourself, make the choices, test what fits and learn to trust that you are the expert on you.

I will care deeply about your wellbeing, but I am not here to care for you. That’s your job: learning to care deeply for yourself.

The aim is not to remove every difficult feeling or make you permanently calm. Over time, I want what we do together to become yours: to notice sooner, ask different questions, know your yes, no and maybe, make different choices, do hard things without losing yourself and find your way back when life knocks you off course.

Our free 30-minute consultation is simply a chance for us to meet, talk about what has brought you here and see whether the way I work feels right for you.

You do not need to prepare anything or know exactly what to say; but you can if you want to. Bring notes if that helps, or just turn up with no idea where to begin.

If we decide to continue, your first paid session is not a formal assessment and there is no expectation that you tell me your entire history.

We begin with what is happening now. You do not need to arrive with a perfectly organised story, explain everything at once, or go backwards before we can start.

I will listen closely, ask questions and pay attention to patterns, shifts and what seems to be happening underneath the story you are telling me. I may ask you to slow something down, notice where you feel it, question whether what you are telling yourself is the only truth, or get curious about what a protective part might be trying to achieve.

Sometimes I might stop you in the middle of a story and ask what just happened in your body, or whether you actually believe the thing you have just said. Sometimes we will sit with something. Sometimes we will laugh.

You can be honest, doubtful, frustrated, challenging, unsure, relieved, angry or quiet. You are always welcome to disagree with me, question something I say, tell me I’ve got it wrong, say you do not want to go somewhere or change direction. Your no matters here.

I will be clear about the boundaries and structure of our work so you know what to expect. There is room for lightness and openness as well as the hard stuff; you do not have to arrive ready to do therapy “properly”.

You can read my counselling agreement in advance at www.helentravis.com/terms-and-conditions

There is no pressure to commit to long-term therapy. We keep checking what you need as the work develops.

First of all, yes, I do have new client availability for September 2026.

Sessions are currently online only via Zoom, Monday to Thursday, with daytime and early evening appointments available.

I offer a free 30-minute consultation so we can meet and see whether my approach feels right for you. Take a read of the rest of my profile and if you feel you may want to work this way with me then you can book in for a chat at www.helentravis.com/book-online

What are you signing up for if you want to work with me?

We usually work weekly for the first 4-6 weeks so we have the chance to build that sense of being known, connected and safe. I’ve found the work tends to go much better when we have that foundation, so it is helpful if you have space for that commitment before we begin.

Then, once we have established that connection, you can choose session spacing and timing to fit your life and process. Some of my clients love the same time slot each week, others love the flexibility to book in wherever suits them each time.

As our work progresses, most clients reduce the regularity of sessions before eventually ending, knowing they can come back for one-offs if needed. There is never any pressure to fit into a traditional therapeutic schedule from my end. We are all unique and I believe in providing you with as much choice as I feasibly can. I am happy to let you know what I recommend for you as we go along if that’s helpful too.

You can book or change your sessions up until 24 hours before the start time on my website. Please do take the chance for a free consultation before we begin and we can discuss this and lots more.

What if your problem isn’t that you haven’t tried hard enough, found the right modality or therapist? Of course, talking helps. Insight matters. But understanding why you feel the way you do isn’t the same as being ok. This is where my work fits in.

Maybe you:

• Already understand what happened to you, your ‘why’?
• Recognise your patterns?
• Read the books?
• Spend long nights talking to friends and/or your favourite AI?
• Have an algorithm that seems to think you need fixing?
• Tried lots of therapy?
• Have a diagnosis that made your whole life make more sense; or not, and you trust what you know to be true for you?

And yet all this hasn’t changed how it feels to be you. You leave one difficult situation only to find yourself repeating the same loop with a different person, job or place. You want something to shift, even though you wonder why you’re the one always doing the work.

I could well be the therapist for you if…

• You’ve heard about IFS or parts work and wondered whether it could finally help something shift.
• You want to work with what happens in your body as well as your mind, but choosing between somatic modalities feels like a needle in a haystack.
• You want someone who understands trauma, attachment, neuroscience and nervous system responses, but won’t treat you as a collection of old wounds or assume we need to trawl through childhood before we work with your life now.

Figuring out the modality isn’t your job, it’s mine. I’ve worked with counselling clients for 15 years, continually learning through further training, my own personal development and hundreds of client relationships. That means I can work confidently with what is actually happening instead of making you fit one method. And I’ll tell you if someone else is better placed to help.

So, if you want to understand yourself without living in your head forever, bring your body into the room, go deep without endlessly revisiting the past and ultimately do this for yourself, I’d like you to get in touch.

How do we do this?

My superpower is seeing and pulling at the threads between things that can feel completely separate when you are living inside them. Working with people from all walks of life and corners of the world helps me zoom out, tune in to the characters and relationships around you, and see patterns that are hard to spot from the middle of your own life.

The relationship matters too. Therapy is one of the few places you get to practise being 100% yourself. We can put the armour down one piece at a time. Showing up is enough.

If autism, ADHD or AuDHD is part of how you make sense of yourself, that can be part of our work too. I’m neurodivergent myself, but I won’t assume your experience looks like mine. I want to understand how you experience the world and, together, curate a space that works for you, rather than squeezing you into a neurotypical version of therapy. You don’t need to be like me, live like me, believe what I believe or fit neatly into any box for us to work well together.

My role is to hold the space, boundaries, accountability and connection, offer steadiness, kindness and curiosity.

I can help light the path, but I am not the path.

Your role is to keep showing up for yourself, make the choices, test what fits and learn to trust that you are the expert on you.

I will care deeply about your wellbeing, but I am not here to care for you. That’s your job: learning to care deeply for yourself.

The aim is not to remove every difficult feeling or make you permanently calm. Over time, I want what we do together to become yours: to notice sooner, ask different questions, know your yes, no and maybe, make different choices, do hard things without losing yourself and find your way back when life knocks you off course.

Our free 30-minute consultation is simply a chance for us to meet, talk about what has brought you here and see whether the way I work feels right for you.

You do not need to prepare anything or know exactly what to say; but you can if you want to. Bring notes if that helps, or just turn up with no idea where to begin.

If we decide to continue, your first paid session is not a formal assessment and there is no expectation that you tell me your entire history.

We begin with what is happening now. You do not need to arrive with a perfectly organised story, explain everything at once, or go backwards before we can start.

I will listen closely, ask questions and pay attention to patterns, shifts and what seems to be happening underneath the story you are telling me. I may ask you to slow something down, notice where you feel it, question whether what you are telling yourself is the only truth, or get curious about what a protective part might be trying to achieve.

Sometimes I might stop you in the middle of a story and ask what just happened in your body, or whether you actually believe the thing you have just said. Sometimes we will sit with something. Sometimes we will laugh.

You can be honest, doubtful, frustrated, challenging, unsure, relieved, angry or quiet. You are always welcome to disagree with me, question something I say, tell me I’ve got it wrong, say you do not want to go somewhere or change direction. Your no matters here.

I will be clear about the boundaries and structure of our work so you know what to expect. There is room for lightness and openness as well as the hard stuff; you do not have to arrive ready to do therapy “properly”.

You can read my counselling agreement in advance at www.helentravis.com/terms-and-conditions

There is no pressure to commit to long-term therapy. We keep checking what you need as the work develops.

First of all, yes, I do have new client availability for September 2026.

Sessions are currently online only via Zoom, Monday to Thursday, with daytime and early evening appointments available.

I offer a free 30-minute consultation so we can meet and see whether my approach feels right for you. Take a read of the rest of my profile and if you feel you may want to work this way with me then you can book in for a chat at www.helentravis.com/book-online

What are you signing up for if you want to work with me?

We usually work weekly for the first 4-6 weeks so we have the chance to build that sense of being known, connected and safe. I’ve found the work tends to go much better when we have that foundation, so it is helpful if you have space for that commitment before we begin.

Then, once we have established that connection, you can choose session spacing and timing to fit your life and process. Some of my clients love the same time slot each week, others love the flexibility to book in wherever suits them each time.

As our work progresses, most clients reduce the regularity of sessions before eventually ending, knowing they can come back for one-offs if needed. There is never any pressure to fit into a traditional therapeutic schedule from my end. We are all unique and I believe in providing you with as much choice as I feasibly can. I am happy to let you know what I recommend for you as we go along if that’s helpful too.

You can book or change your sessions up until 24 hours before the start time on my website. Please do take the chance for a free consultation before we begin and we can discuss this and lots more.

What if your problem isn’t that you haven’t tried hard enough, found the right modality or therapist? Of course, talking helps. Insight matters. But understanding why you feel the way you do isn’t the same as being ok. This is where my work fits in.

Maybe you:

• Already understand what happened to you, your ‘why’?
• Recognise your patterns?
• Read the books?
• Spend long nights talking to friends and/or your favourite AI?
• Have an algorithm that seems to think you need fixing?
• Tried lots of therapy?
• Have a diagnosis that made your whole life make more sense; or not, and you trust what you know to be true for you?

And yet all this hasn’t changed how it feels to be you. You leave one difficult situation only to find yourself repeating the same loop with a different person, job or place. You want something to shift, even though you wonder why you’re the one always doing the work.

I could well be the therapist for you if…

• You’ve heard about IFS or parts work and wondered whether it could finally help something shift.
• You want to work with what happens in your body as well as your mind, but choosing between somatic modalities feels like a needle in a haystack.
• You want someone who understands trauma, attachment, neuroscience and nervous system responses, but won’t treat you as a collection of old wounds or assume we need to trawl through childhood before we work with your life now.

Figuring out the modality isn’t your job, it’s mine. I’ve worked with counselling clients for 15 years, continually learning through further training, my own personal development and hundreds of client relationships. That means I can work confidently with what is actually happening instead of making you fit one method. And I’ll tell you if someone else is better placed to help.

So if you want to understand yourself without living in your head forever, bring your body into the room, go deep without endlessly revisiting the past and ultimately do this for yourself, I’d like you to get in touch.

How do we do this?

My superpower is seeing and pulling at the threads between things that can feel completely separate when you are living inside them. Working with people from all walks of life and corners of the world helps me zoom out, tune in to the characters and relationships around you, and see patterns that are hard to spot from the middle of your own life.

The relationship matters too. Therapy is one of the few places you get to practise being 100% yourself. We can put the armour down one piece at a time. Showing up is enough.

If autism, ADHD or AuDHD is part of how you make sense of yourself, that can be part of our work too. I’m neurodivergent myself, but I won’t assume your experience looks like mine. I want to understand how you experience the world and, together, curate a space that works for you, rather than squeezing you into a neurotypical version of therapy. You don’t need to be like me, live like me, believe what I believe or fit neatly into any box for us to work well together.

My role is to hold the space, boundaries, accountability and connection, offer steadiness, kindness and curiosity. I can help light the path, but I am not the path.

Your role is to keep showing up for yourself, make the choices, test what fits and learn to trust that you are the expert on you.  

I will care deeply about your wellbeing, but I am not here to care for you. That’s your job: learning to care deeply for yourself.

The aim is not to remove every difficult feeling or make you permanently calm. Over time, I want what we do together to become yours: to notice sooner, ask different questions, know your yes, no and maybe, make different choices, do hard things without losing yourself and find your way back when life knocks you off course.

Our free 30-minute consultation is simply a chance for us to meet, talk about what has brought you here and see whether the way I work feels right for you.

You do not need to prepare anything or know exactly what to say; but you can if you want to. Bring notes if that helps, or just turn up with no idea where to begin.

If we decide to continue, your first paid session is not a formal assessment and there is no expectation that you tell me your entire history.

We begin with what is happening now. You do not need to arrive with a perfectly organised story, explain everything at once, or go backwards before we can start.

I will listen closely, ask questions and pay attention to patterns, shifts and what seems to be happening underneath the story you are telling me. I may ask you to slow something down, notice where you feel it, question whether what you are telling yourself is the only truth, or get curious about what a protective part might be trying to achieve.

Sometimes I might stop you in the middle of a story and ask what just happened in your body, or whether you actually believe the thing you have just said. Sometimes we will sit with something. Sometimes we will laugh.

You can be honest, doubtful, frustrated, challenging, unsure, relieved, angry or quiet. You are always welcome to disagree with me, question something I say, tell me I’ve got it wrong, say you do not want to go somewhere or change direction. Your no matters here.

I will be clear about the boundaries and structure of our work so you know what to expect. There is room for lightness and openness as well as the hard stuff; you do not have to arrive ready to do therapy “properly”.

You can read my counselling agreement in advance at www.helentravis.com/terms-and-conditions

There is no pressure to commit to long-term therapy. We keep checking what you need as the work develops.

First of all, yes, I do have new client availability for September 2026.

Sessions are currently online only via Zoom, Monday to Thursday, with daytime and early evening appointments available.

I offer a free 30-minute consultation so we can meet and see whether my approach feels right for you. Take a read of the rest of my profile and if you feel you may want to work this way with me then you can book in for a chat at www.helentravis.com/book-online

What are you signing up for if you want to work with me?

We usually work weekly for the first 4-6 weeks so we have the chance to build that sense of being known, connected and safe. I’ve found the work tends to go much better when we have that foundation, so it is helpful if you have space for that commitment before we begin.

Then, once we have established that connection, you can choose session spacing and timing to fit your life and process. Some of my clients love the same time slot each week, others love the flexibility to book in wherever suits them each time.

As our work progresses, most clients reduce the regularity of sessions before eventually ending, knowing they can come back for one-offs if needed. There is never any pressure to fit into a traditional therapeutic schedule from my end. We are all unique and I believe in providing you with as much choice as I feasibly can. I am happy to let you know what I recommend for you as we go along if that’s helpful too.

You can book or change your sessions up until 24 hours before the start time on my website. Please do take the chance for a free consultation before we begin and we can discuss this and lots more.

What if your problem isn’t that you haven’t tried hard enough, found the right modality or therapist? Of course, talking helps. Insight matters. But understanding why you feel the way you do isn’t the same as being ok. This is where my work fits in.

Maybe you:

• Already understand what happened to you, your ‘why’?
• Recognise your patterns?
• Read the books?
• Spend long nights talking to friends and/or your favourite AI?
• Have an algorithm that seems to think you need fixing?
• Tried lots of therapy?
• Have a diagnosis that made your whole life make more sense; or not, and you trust what you know to be true for you?

And yet all this hasn’t changed how it feels to be you. You leave one difficult situation only to find yourself repeating the same loop with a different person, job or place. You want something to shift, even though you wonder why you’re the one always doing the work.

I could well be the therapist for you if…

• You’ve heard about IFS or parts work and wondered whether it could finally help something shift.
• You want to work with what happens in your body as well as your mind, but choosing between somatic modalities feels like a needle in a haystack.
• You want someone who understands trauma, attachment, neuroscience and nervous system responses, but won’t treat you as a collection of old wounds or assume we need to trawl through childhood before we work with your life now.

Figuring out the modality isn’t your job, it’s mine. I’ve worked with counselling clients for 15 years, continually learning through further training, my own personal development and hundreds of client relationships. That means I can work confidently with what is actually happening instead of making you fit one method. And I’ll tell you if someone else is better placed to help.

So, if you want to understand yourself without living in your head forever, bring your body into the room, go deep without endlessly revisiting the past and ultimately do this for yourself, I’d like you to get in touch.

How do we do this?

My superpower is seeing and pulling at the threads between things that can feel completely separate when you are living inside them. Working with people from all walks of life and corners of the world helps me zoom out, tune in to the characters and relationships around you, and see patterns that are hard to spot from the middle of your own life.

The relationship matters too. Therapy is one of the few places you get to practise being 100% yourself. We can put the armour down one piece at a time. Showing up is enough.

If autism, ADHD or AuDHD is part of how you make sense of yourself, that can be part of our work too. I’m neurodivergent myself, but I won’t assume your experience looks like mine. I want to understand how you experience the world and, together, curate a space that works for you, rather than squeezing you into a neurotypical version of therapy. You don’t need to be like me, live like me, believe what I believe or fit neatly into any box for us to work well together.

My role is to hold the space, boundaries, accountability and connection, offer steadiness, kindness and curiosity. 

I can help light the path, but I am not the path.

Your role is to keep showing up for yourself, make the choices, test what fits and learn to trust that you are the expert on you.

I will care deeply about your wellbeing, but I am not here to care for you. That’s your job: learning to care deeply for yourself.

The aim is not to remove every difficult feeling or make you permanently calm. Over time, I want what we do together to become yours: to notice sooner, ask different questions, know your yes, no and maybe, make different choices, do hard things without losing yourself and find your way back when life knocks you off course.

Our free 30-minute consultation is simply a chance for us to meet, talk about what has brought you here and see whether the way I work feels right for you.

You do not need to prepare anything or know exactly what to say; but you can if you want to. Bring notes if that helps, or just turn up with no idea where to begin.

If we decide to continue, your first paid session is not a formal assessment and there is no expectation that you tell me your entire history.

We begin with what is happening now. You do not need to arrive with a perfectly organised story, explain everything at once, or go backwards before we can start.

I will listen closely, ask questions and pay attention to patterns, shifts and what seems to be happening underneath the story you are telling me. I may ask you to slow something down, notice where you feel it, question whether what you are telling yourself is the only truth, or get curious about what a protective part might be trying to achieve.

Sometimes I might stop you in the middle of a story and ask what just happened in your body, or whether you actually believe the thing you have just said. Sometimes we will sit with something. Sometimes we will laugh.

You can be honest, doubtful, frustrated, challenging, unsure, relieved, angry or quiet. You are always welcome to disagree with me, question something I say, tell me I’ve got it wrong, say you do not want to go somewhere or change direction. Your no matters here.

I will be clear about the boundaries and structure of our work so you know what to expect. There is room for lightness and openness as well as the hard stuff; you do not have to arrive ready to do therapy “properly”.

You can read my counselling agreement in advance at www.helentravis.com/terms-and-conditions

There is no pressure to commit to long-term therapy. We keep checking what you need as the work develops.