About Helen
Helen Woodrum is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with ten years of experience delivering outpatient individual therapy in Illinois.
Background and approach
She began her career in community mental health centers and later provided services within an outpatient behavioral health clinic at a hospital, which shaped her understanding of how social systems and environmental factors influence wellbeing.
Helen developed a clinical interest in trauma early in her training and has focused much of her post-graduate learning on how complex trauma affects people and ways to help clients process those experiences.
Her practice emphasizes starting with what feels most pressing to the client and building practical skills and self-awareness to manage stressors, build resilience, and support both mental and physical self-care. Helen integrates techniques from evidence-informed approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, and client-centered principles to tailor treatment plans.
She aims to create a therapeutic space marked by predictability, respect, warmth, and gentle humor while helping clients identify tools that fit their lives and goals.
Bringing attachment and skills-based therapy online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on understanding how early relational experiences influence current patterns in relationships and emotional responses, helping clients explore connection, trust, and boundaries. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical ways to identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, often used for anxiety, depression, and stress management. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) works with emotional experience and relational patterns to improve connection and process strong feelings within relationships and the self.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and the issues that brought the client to therapy, then recommend and adapt methods that fit the individual's needs. Sessions may combine attachment perspectives, skill-building, and emotion-focused work so the plan evolves with progress and feedback.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which allow for flexibility in scheduling and communication style. These formats make it easier to access licensed professionals from different locations and to maintain continuity of care when life circumstances change, while supporting the same therapeutic work that in-person sessions aim to achieve.
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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