About Adrien
Adrien Helander is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people manage anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, and ADHD. They also support those coping with trauma, grief, stress, and questions about sexual and gender identity. Adrien aims to make the first step feel easier and less overwhelming.
Adrien keeps sessions collaborative and straightforward. They listen first, then work with each person to set practical goals. Conversations focus on what matters most to the client and on small, achievable changes.
Background and approach
Their background includes nine years of clinical experience and licensure as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, in Washington. Adrien has worked with people facing mood disorders, trauma, and neurodiversity concerns such as autism and ADHD. This experience shapes how they notice patterns and tailor care.
Adrien draws from a few therapy approaches to fit each person’s needs. They use client-centered techniques to follow a person’s lead, cognitive behavioral methods to shift unhelpful thinking and behavior, and EMDR when trauma memories get in the way of daily life. Mindfulness and DBT skills are also used to build emotion regulation and present-moment focus.
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish and can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Adrien discusses practical steps for work and relationships, and helps people balance life and values without judgment.
How Adrien's approaches work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following a person's priorities. The therapist reflects what they hear and helps people set goals that matter to them. This approach fits well when someone needs a respectful space to sort out values and direction.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses practical exercises and homework to change patterns that keep problems going, which can help with anxiety, depression, and attention challenges. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is used when traumatic memories are causing distress; it involves processing those memories in targeted sessions to reduce their emotional hold.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Adrien collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. They may combine elements of client-centered work, CBT, EMDR, mindfulness, or DBT skills over time so the plan fits the person, not the other way around.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues. Phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text messaging can support quick check-ins, short skill practice, or when written reflection helps. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and varied schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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