About Helen
Helen Murphy is an ACA and PACFA counsellor with ten years of experience. She creates a warm, non-judgemental space where people feel heard and supported. Helen helps clients work through anxiety, stress, depression and low self-esteem.
She also supports people dealing with relationship challenges and ADHD. Helen focuses on practical change. She listens to what matters most and works together with each person to find doable steps.
Sessions aim to help people build confidence and better coping strategies for day-to-day life.
How Helen works
Her background includes a decade of work with adults and young people facing major life transitions, grief, burnout and career strain. Helen brings experience supporting those affected by attachment and abandonment issues, adoption and foster care histories, and a range of personality and neurodiversity concerns. Therapy with Helen tends to be collaborative and strengths-based.
She helps clients notice patterns, try small experiments and develop clearer ways to manage emotions and relationships. The focus is on steady progress rather than quick fixes. People meet Helen to find practical tools and clearer direction.
Her approach is structured but flexible, adapting to each person’s goals and pace. To start, she asks simple questions to understand current stresses and what the client hopes to change.
What Helen works with
The areas below are the ones Helen selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | ACA, PACFA |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Australia |
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Online support options
Approaches Helen Uses and How They Help Online
Helen draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach she uses helps people identify thought and behaviour patterns and experiment with new ways of responding to stress and anxiety. This can help someone reduce unhelpful reactions and build more effective coping strategies.Another approach focuses on strengthening emotional regulation and self-esteem by practising small, achievable steps. It supports people feeling overwhelmed by emotion, low mood or relationship strain, helping them gain clearer ways to manage difficult feelings.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Helen will discuss what fits best with a person’s needs, goals and preferences, and she adapts techniques as progress is made. The process is collaborative so clients have a say in which strategies are tried.
Practical benefits of online therapy include fitting sessions into a busy week and reducing travel time. Online work can make it easier to have shorter check-ins or to schedule sessions around work and family commitments. Since the biography does not list specific session formats, confirm which formats are available before booking to ensure they suit your routine.
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