Helen Sharwood, Registered Psychologist

One small step can change your life…

Your needs and wants matter. The experience of supportive counselling can offer you an opportunity to recognise, acknowledge, and realise what you value most in your life. Together we co-create a vision to set goals, make meaning, and  formulate practical plans to nurture wellbeing and a more satisfying life.

Helen is a highly experienced psychologist and counsellor who places great importance on creating a respectful and safe environment where clients feel heard and understood. Helen’s more than 20 years of counselling experience with individual adults (20 years and up) from diverse cultural, personal and work backgrounds and her natural empathy frequently enables a rapid understanding of clients’ issues and facilitates her approach to therapy. She specialises in online telehealth sessions which provide clients with greater flexibility of appointment times and ease of access.

Each client is valued as an individual bringing their own particular issues to therapy. A collaborative client centred approach provides the opportunity to explore, discover and gain insight to support better choices and decision making. As therapy progresses whether it is short term solution based or longer term, clients can report they feel more confidence, clarity and life purpose.

Evidenced-Based therapies such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness and Compassion Based Therapies are Helen’s preferred but not only therapy modalities. If wanted Helen teaches and provides information on practical life skills such as breathing exercises, sleep hygiene, distress tolerance techniques and mindfulness practices. Helen is dedicated to supporting each individual with Best Fit practices to achieve meaningful change with the objective of empowering them to enjoy a more fulfilling life.

Therapeutic Approaches

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
• Schema Therapy
• Solution-focused therapy
• Mindfulness-Based therapies
• Positive Psychology
• Attachment-Based Therapy

Clinical Focus

• Stress, burnout
• Anxiety, social and performance anxiety, panic attacks
• Depression, grief and loss
• Relationship issues
• Sleep problems
• Womens’ health issues
• Life transition and Adjustment issues
• Anger management
• Self-Esteem and Self-Development