About Helen
Helen Woodrum is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with ten years of outpatient practice. She has worked in community mental health centers and in an outpatient behavioral health clinic inside a hospital, so she knows different care settings. Helen focuses on what feels most urgent for each person and helps them take practical steps forward.
She developed a strong interest in trauma early in her career and has pursued extra learning about how complex trauma affects daily life.
Background and approach
She uses a mix of tools to help people reprocess difficult experiences and reduce symptoms that get in the way of everyday functioning. Her clinical work often combines talk therapy with attention to both mental and physical self-care. Helen values her Master’s in Social Work because it highlights the role of social systems and environmental factors when planning care.
That perspective helps her tailor sessions to each person’s situation rather than offering one-size-fits-all solutions. She centers treatment on the issues that matter most right now. In sessions she aims to build safety, predictability, and connection while keeping things respectful and sometimes light with appropriate humor.
The goal is to help people develop skills, build resilience, and gain self-awareness they can use outside of therapy. Her practice addresses a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, ADHD, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, sleep problems, parenting strain, and compassion fatigue.
Helen works with mood disorders and other related struggles, and adapts her approach to each person’s priorities.
How her therapeutic approaches work online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people understand connection, manage attachment worries, and repair ways of relating that cause pain.Client-Centered Therapy puts the person’s experience at the center. The therapist listens deeply, reflects what is said, and follows the person’s pace so they can find their own solutions and grow self-understanding.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Helen will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. She adapts methods over time so sessions match changing needs and progress.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexible options. Video is useful when visual cues and connection matter, while phone calls can work better when bandwidth is limited or a session needs to fit into a short break. Chat and messaging allow shorter check-ins, ongoing reflection, and tools people can use between sessions.
These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care around busy schedules, health needs, or unexpected life changes, while still focusing on practical skills and emotional work.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English