Heli Annika Giles, BACP

Heli Annika Giles is a qualified integrative therapeutic counsellor who primarily practices using a person-centred approach. She holds BACP membership - BACP is the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, the professional body for counsellors and psychotherapists in the United Kingdom. She offers a warm, nonjudgmental presence for people taking that first step toward support, and she remembers how daunting it can feel to reach out.

Heli works with a range of everyday and complex concerns, including general and social anxiety, relationship difficulties, low self-esteem and perfectionism, feelings of not belonging, stress and burnout, career-related issues and trauma. She often supports clients who are coping with life transitions, worrying emotions or recent and longstanding challenges that make it hard to feel like themselves.

Her approach is grounded in the belief that with the right support people have the capacity to find a way to feel better. Counselling with Heli is framed as a collaborative process rather than a search for what is wrong. She helps clients gain clarity, understand and work through complex emotions, and build practical coping skills so difficult feelings do not dominate day-to-day life.

Clients set the topics and goals they wish to explore, and Heli supports them while reviewing progress together. She aims to help clients challenge unhelpful thinking patterns, develop greater self-awareness and grow confidence over time. She also believes it is important to normalise therapy for men, recognising that asking for help can sometimes feel shameful and that reaching out can be an important part of change.