Helen Ridlington-White, BACP
Experienced integrative psychotherapist focused on the body
About Helen
Helen Ridlington-White brings 28 years of psychotherapy experience to her practice in the United Kingdom. She is listed with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and has a long history working in the NHS and in independent practice. Helen blends practical listening with creative ways to help people understand themselves.
She offers sessions online in a variety of formats to suit different needs. Helen trained with a strong base in child development and counselling.
Background and approach
Over the years she has worked with people who are neurotypical and those with neurodiversity. That background informs her calm, patient style and her ability to adapt how she works to each person. Her approach brings together somatic awareness - paying attention to bodily signals - with client-centred listening and mindfulness.
Helen also draws on Jungian ideas about symbols and meaning, and uses skills from dialectical behaviour therapy where helpful. She often includes simple creative activities if a person wants them. Typical concerns she helps people explore include anxiety, stress, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting worries, and coping with life changes.
She also supports people facing trauma, addiction and compassion fatigue, and works with issues such as attachment, adoption, autism, and women’s concerns. Sessions can be arranged by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Helen offers supervision to students and professionals alongside her therapy practice.
To start, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to availability.
How Helen uses somatic and talking therapies online
Somatic Therapy helps people notice sensations in the body and link them to feelings and memories. It can be useful for stress, trauma responses and chronic tension by making physical patterns more visible and manageable.Client-Centred Therapy focuses on being listened to without judgement. The counsellor offers empathic attention and helps people find their own pace and direction, which suits those wanting emotional clarity and support.
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) provides practical skills for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness. Short, skills-based work can help with anger, emotional overwhelm and self-regulation.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work together with the person to try different ways of working and agree what feels most helpful. Preferences, goals and comfort with techniques guide how sessions evolve.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around family, work or geographical constraints and allow different modes of communication when talking face to face is hard. Registered professionals can use these options to tailor work to individual needs and circumstances.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English