Meet Dr Helen Care
Clinical Psychologist for children, young people and families
With over 20 years of experience across the NHS and private practice, Helen offers individual online therapy for children, young people and families.
Alongside this, she also assesses neurodiversity for a specialist diagnostic service.
A practical approach
Helen works with a range of therapeutic approaches, blending them to suit each individual patient, their experiences and needs. These include CBT, EMDR (including specialist EMDR for neurodiversity) ACT and her therapeutic ‘home’, Narrative Therapy.
Playful at heart
Helen loves getting creative, telling stories and helping young people to tell their own. By building characters and stories together, Narrative Therapy offers a safe
way to talk about experiences and start to explore and understand difficult feelings.
Experience and training
With more than 13 years in the NHS, Helen has worked in settings including Great Ormond Street Hospital, Southampton General Hospital, Rowan Hospice
Portsmouth and John Radcliffe Hospital Oxford University NHS Trust.
She has a Doctorate of Clinical Psychology (DClinPsych) from the University of Southampton and an undergraduate degree in Experimental Psychology (BA Hons) from the University of Oxford.
What clients say
Former patient
"I still think about the contents of our discussions almost daily"
Former patient
"5 years later and our discussions are still significantly improving my life directly and indirectly. Thank you."
Parent
"I also wanted to thank you for building up the emotional intelligence within him. It amazes me."
Support offered
Individual Therapy
Psychological support to help young people navigate challenges. e.g anxiety, neurodiversity, trauma, phobias.
Support for parents and carers
Supporting parents and carers to help their young people to thrive
Neurodiversity
Comprehensive diagnostic evaluations on behalf of The Adolphus Practice
https://www.drkatieadolphus.co.uk/
Workshops and talks
Helen can offer a range of workshops and talks, e.g emotional regulation in primary schools; lived experience of parenting children with neurodiversity; managing school anxiety
In Print
Outside her work with patients, Helen enjoys writing about psychology and mental health issues for young people, families and educators.
Since 2020, she has worked with multi-national learning company, Pearson, writing pieces for their Wellbeing Zone and commenting on the mental health findings in their annual School Report.
https://www.pearson.com/en-gb/schools/insights-and-events/topics/school-and-college-report/2026.html
Beyond Pearson, she has written for Schools Week and contributed her thoughts to the national press.
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/beyond-the-scroll-5-ways-to-support-young-people-with-social-media/
Helen also writes fiction books for children. In 2024 she published “Feeling Chameleon and the Birthday Surprise” to help 3-7 year olds understand big feelings. She accompanied this with supporting resources for parents and teachers, which have been used in local schools with children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2. She’s keen to expand this work in the future!
Contact Dr Care
Please feel free to get in touch to discuss anything further.
drcare@aconfidentstart.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-helen-care-2a3397422
Location
Oxfordshire and online
Clinical psychologist for children, young people and families.