About Helen
Helen Woodrum is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has provided outpatient individual therapy for 10 years. She practices in Illinois and draws on a decade of experience in both community mental health centers and hospital outpatient behavioral health clinics. Helen focuses on what feels most urgent to each person and helps them build practical skills to cope and grow.
She developed an early interest in trauma and has spent much of her learning on how complex trauma affects people.
Background and approach
Her work blends attention to emotional patterns with strategies that target thoughts and behaviors. Helen helps people reprocess painful memories while also strengthening day-to-day coping skills. Her clinical approach emphasizes relationships and personal meaning.
She uses methods that center the client, pay attention to attachment and emotion, and teach concrete ways to manage distress. Sessions include discussion, skills practice, and planning for real-life changes. Helen values the perspective her Master of Social Work degree provided about social systems and context.
That informs how she and the person in therapy shape goals and steps forward. She encourages self-care for both mind and body as part of treatment. People describe her therapy environment as respectful and supportive, with room for direct work and some lightness when it fits.
Helen aims to help people increase resilience, reduce overwhelm, and gain greater awareness of patterns that affect daily life.
Approaches that guide online care and practical work
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationship patterns shape current emotions and reactions. It helps people notice how connection or distance shows up in relationships and teaches ways to shift those patterns for calmer interactions.Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and supporting the person’s own goals. The therapist reflects concerns back, helps clarify values, and supports decisions so people can build self-trust and make changes that fit their life.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It offers specific exercises to test unhelpful thoughts, develop new coping strategies, and change behaviors that maintain anxiety or low mood.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Helen will collaborate with each person to decide which methods to focus on, adjusting plans as needs and goals change. She aims to match techniques to what someone wants to accomplish and how they prefer to work.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use face-to-face time for deeper discussion and skills practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief updates, homework exchange, or when writing feels clearer than speaking. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and varied daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
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- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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