Helen Downs, NCPS

Helen Downs is a UK-licensed therapist and hypnotherapist who brings years of focused clinical work and compassion to her practice. She holds the NCPS credential, a professional qualification for therapists, and combines more than five years of professional therapeutic experience with seven years of dedicated hypnotherapy practice. Her work centers on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, and issues related to LGBT identity. She also supports those facing relationship and family challenges, grief, intimacy concerns, sleep and eating difficulties, parenting pressures, career transitions, and mood conditions such as depression and bipolar disorder.

Over her career she has developed experience supporting neurodiverse clients and those living with ADHD, and she brings that understanding into other areas such as communication and attachment difficulties, codependency, and body image concerns. Helen also works within the prison services and has a particular commitment to assisting people and their families who have been involved in the system, where mental health, diversity, ADHD, and addiction often intersect.

Helen believes everyone deserves respect, sensitivity, and compassion, and she creates a calm, nonjudgmental space to help people rediscover direction and plan practical steps toward a more fulfilling life. She approaches therapy as a collaborative process, supporting clients as they turn past struggles and setbacks into opportunities for growth and self-understanding, and she encourages the courage it takes to seek change.