About

Helen James (she/her)

I am a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) with over twenty five years experience in health care, initially as a Registered Nurse (RGN) and then as a Counsellor.

My nursing career started in the NHS, before moving into the Higher Education sector, where I headed up a Health & Wellbeing Service in a University of Cambridge college for many years. That role was predominately working within mental health and wellbeing, and I gained training and expertise in this speciality at all levels, including crisis work. As such I naturally evolved into counselling, undertaking my counselling training and working with students as a Counsellor, before leaving to set up in private practice.

I'm a warm, empathetic, and compassionate therapist who enjoys working collaboratively with individuals, supporting them to work through the challenges which bring them to counselling. I help them to gain greater understanding, self awareness and insight, alongside learning coping strategies to help soothe themselves.

Working integratively, I mainly draw on the Psychodynamic, Humanistic and ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) models of therapy. I have experience of working with many different types of issues, including anxiety, depression, eating problems, trauma, personality disorders, low mood, bereavement, relationships, work/study issues, health issues, sexuality and identity.

Appointments are available to adult individuals either in person in my consulting room in central Cambridge (CB2) or online via video consultation.

Fees are £70 per 50 minute session. To enquire about us working together please don't hesitate to contact me.

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What Clients Say

“I wanted to take the opportunity to say a big thank you for everything you have done for me over the past three years. Needless to say your counselling, support and help has been invaluable to me, and has been a foundational pillar in my time in Cambridge, but also in my life.

I remember when I started counselling sessions and I said my goal was to be happier. You have helped me achieve that, and more than words can accurately express I feel like I am more the author of my own life and self now, and have become a person who is closer to the me I want to be."