About Helen
Helen Perez-Boyd is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in New York with nine years in independent practice. She blends practical help with a warm, non-judgmental presence. Helen aims to create a space where people can talk through what feels hard and learn small, useful steps forward.
Before focusing on independent practice she worked in employee assistance programs and substance abuse outpatient care. Those roles involved ongoing clinical support, case management, and short-term interventions for people facing work problems or addiction-related challenges.
Background and approach
She also has experience providing brief and extended therapy in preventive services. Helen has worked with people dealing with relationship strain, parenting stress, grief, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She also focuses on issues like abandonment, body image, infidelity, eating and food-related concerns, communication problems, and personality-related difficulties.
Her practice includes support around addictions, anger, and coping with crisis or change. Her style is facilitative and empathic. Sessions tend to center on what the person wants to change and practical steps to get there.
Helen uses goal-focused conversations and motivational techniques to help people find momentum and stick with changes. She also runs online support groups for survivors and for people working on self-awareness and behavior change. Helen conducts sessions in English and practices as an LCSW (New York license NY LCSW 074881).
How her approaches translate to online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what matters to you. It helps when someone needs a calm space to talk through feelings and make sense of choices. Motivational Interviewing is about discovering your own reasons to change and building small steps that feel doable. It works well for habit change, addictions, and when motivation feels stuck.Choosing the right approach is a shared effort. The therapist will talk with you about your goals and try different ways of working to find what helps most. Together you can adjust the focus over time based on progress and preferences.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls let you have a conversation much like an in-person meeting. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is low or when you prefer not to be on camera. Chat and messaging are handy for brief check-ins, tracking progress, or fitting therapy into a busy schedule. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and to pick the format that fits your routine and comfort.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English