About Helen
Helen Sprague is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who helps people facing stress, anxiety, anger, and low self-esteem. She supports those coping with life changes and people looking to deepen self-love or clarify life purpose. Helen offers steady, practical guidance in a calm, direct way.
She combines body-centered work with thought-focused tools. That means sessions can include noticing physical sensations alongside changing unhelpful thinking patterns. Helen also uses mindfulness practices to help people slow down and respond differently to stress.
Background and approach
Sessions are shaped around each person’s needs. Helen aims for clear goals and simple steps you can try between meetings. She balances empathy with straightforward feedback so progress feels tangible.
Over a 15-year career she has focused on helping people rewrite limiting self-beliefs and move through emotional blocks. Her background brings together psychological approaches and broader, reflective practices that encourage self-awareness and choice. People who come to her often want both relief from immediate symptoms and a clearer sense of direction.
Helen supports that by teaching coping skills, exploring how body reactions link to emotions, and guiding practices that build self-compassion. Her style is practical, grounded, and hopeful.
Online options that support body-aware and mindful work
Somatic Therapy pays attention to how the body holds stress and emotion, using breath, movement, and noticing physical sensations to help release tension and shift habits. It can be useful when strong feelings show up in the body and you want tools to calm or regulate your nervous system.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts shape feelings and actions. It teaches practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking and to build new behaviors that reduce anxiety and improve mood.
Mindfulness Therapy emphasizes simple, present-moment awareness. Short practices help people notice automatic reactions and choose different responses to stress or negative self-talk.
Finding the right mix of these approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, body responses, and daily life. This is a shared process that may shift over time.
Online sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging offer flexible ways to connect from home. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep continuity when life is unpredictable. They also allow the therapist to guide mindfulness and somatic noticing in real time and suggest practical exercises you can use between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also works with
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English