Helen Perez-Boyd, LCSW

Helen Perez-Boyd is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in New York with nine years of clinical practice. She brings experience across multiple care settings, including employee assistance programs where she provided ongoing clinical services and case management for employees facing work performance challenges. She has also worked in preventive services offering both brief and extended therapy to children, adolescents, couples, and families, and in an outpatient substance abuse program delivering counseling to adolescents and adults.

Helen maintains a focused interest in personality disorders and facilitates two online support groups that serve survivors and individuals with Cluster B traits who are working on self-awareness and behavior change. Her therapeutic stance is warm, non-judgmental, and empathic, with a facilitative role that centers the client’s goals. In session she collaborates with clients to address the areas of life where they feel stuck or distressed, tailoring the work to each person’s needs.

She draws on client-centered therapy, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused therapy to support change. Helen works with relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, self-esteem and body image issues, stress and anxiety, addictions, grief, intimacy-related problems, eating and food-related issues, anger, career and vocational concerns, depression, and coping with life changes. Additional areas of focus include abandonment, commitment and communication problems, control issues, fertility concerns, impulsivity, infidelity, isolation and loneliness, midlife transitions, mood and personality disorders, and related family problems.