Helmi Milliken , BACP

Helmi Milliken is a counsellor with five years of professional clinical client experience in the United Kingdom. She works with adults from around 16 years and up. Helmi focuses on everyday problems that can feel overwhelming, such as stress, anxiety, grief and loss, low self-esteem and career concerns.

She has worked with people from many faith backgrounds and pays attention to each person’s values and beliefs. Helmi sees the person as the expert in their own life and follows the client’s lead when making changes. She aims to make the first steps into therapy less daunting and more manageable.

Helmi offers practical support for coping with life changes and facing work-related pressures. She helps people process feelings tied to abandonment, guilt or shame and to recover from experiences of domestic violence. Her work also covers panic attacks, self-love and issues commonly faced by young adults.

In sessions she listens carefully and helps people set small, achievable goals. The focus is on what someone wants to change and how to take steady steps towards that goal. Helmi emphasises collaboration and realistic actions that fit day-to-day life.

Therapy with her aims to be a steady, patient process. She hopes to make the journey feel rewarding rather than overwhelming. Practical coping strategies and clearer next steps are typical outcomes clients work towards.

Therapeutic approaches and how online therapy helps

Helmi uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional processing. One common approach helps people break down anxious thoughts and try small experiments to test them in daily life. This method is useful for managing panic attacks and ongoing worry.

Another approach emphasises working through grief and painful emotions by naming feelings and creating manageable steps to move forward. This helps people make space for loss and find ways to re-engage with life without rushing the process.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Helmi will discuss different methods with clients and choose what suits their goals, needs and preferences. This is a collaborative process where the therapist and client review what is or isn’t helpful and adjust as needed.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people read facial cues and talk more like an in-person session. Phone sessions work better when a quieter or lower-bandwidth option is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing support between sessions or when writing things out helps clarity. Together these options make it easier to fit counselling around work, study and family life.