About Helen
Helen Lopez is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with 15 years of experience. She speaks English and Spanish and brings a calm, practical approach to sessions. Her work is aimed at people facing stress, anxiety, and shifts in mood or life circumstances.
Helen focuses on clear, actionable steps rather than long lectures. She helps people spot unhelpful thinking and try different responses. Sessions often include skill-building so clients can use tools between meetings.
Background and approach
Her background includes a masters in clinical mental health counseling. Over time she has supported people coping with substance use, trauma, grief, and identity questions. That experience shaped a straightforward style that values honesty and steady progress.
Helen uses methods from cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior approaches alongside client-centered and acceptance-based ideas. She adapts what she offers to a person’s specific concerns, whether that is low self-esteem, relationship issues, or navigating life changes. People working with her can expect a mix of reflection and practical homework.
Sessions can address communication problems, boundaries, impulse control, and skills for emotion regulation. Helen aims to make therapy useful and understandable for everyday life.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice their thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It’s useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors with practical exercises and homework. It often helps with anxiety, mood concerns, and coping skills. Dialectical Behavior Therapy teaches concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness, which can be valuable for mood instability and strong emotional reactions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for more in-depth conversations and skill teaching, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can work for brief check-ins or flexible scheduling. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving routines while keeping a consistent course of care.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish