Helen Edwards-matheou – Professional Counsellor
Thank you for being here. It can take courage to reach out. I’d like to offer you a space where you can feel heard and supported. Counselling sessions move at your pace, with room to breathe, speak, and explore. Whether you're navigating change, seeking clarity, or carrying something quietly within, this is a place of gentle awareness and compassionate support.
Counselling here is more than conversation... it’s an unfolding.
Guided by curiosity, care, and depth, each session honours your lived experience and emerging self.
Personal Touch
My path to this work began during a time when I felt lost and unsure of where I was headed. That experience of searching, of wanting to understand myself and find a way forward, led me to Psychosynthesis. It offered a kind and hopeful way of being, and it continues to guide me every day.
Client Focus
Therapy can be a brief, focused space or a longer, deeper process, depending on what you’re bringing and what you hope to explore. Some people come with a specific issue and find that a shorter period of work offers the clarity or support they need. For others, the process unfolds more gradually. Our histories, patterns, and emotional landscapes can be complex, and meaningful change often takes time, patience, and a sense of safety in the relationship.
Working together over a longer period allows trust to develop and gives space for deeper layers of experience to come into awareness; feelings, beliefs, or patterns that may have been held for many years. This can sometimes feel challenging, and there may be moments when things feel more intense before they begin to shift. With steadiness and commitment, these periods can lead to greater ease, understanding, and a more compassionate relationship with yourself.
Within a supportive space, there’s room to explore the struggles you may be facing and to gently welcome the parts of yourself that are ready to be seen. I’m here to walk alongside you as you make sense of life’s challenges, grow your resilience, and reconnect with your inner worth.
Sessions are held weekly, as regularity and consistency help support the therapeutic process. Appointments are available online or in person across several locations in Wiltshire. Each session lasts 50 minutes, offering spacious time for reflection, connection, and meaningful exploration.
If you’d like to connect first, I offer a free 15‑minute call; a gentle way to get a sense of how we might work together.
Background
I’m a BACP‑registered Psychosynthesis Counsellor based in Wiltshire. My work is grounded in a humanistic and transpersonal perspective, which means I see each person as inherently resourceful, with the capacity for growth and change. I offer an integrative approach, drawing on different therapeutic perspectives so we can work in a way that genuinely supports your individual needs.
I believe that even in our most challenging or darkest moments, there is potential for insight, transformation, and rediscovery. Life can sometimes feel overwhelming, and our sense of direction or wellbeing may become clouded. Counselling offers a steady, reflective space to explore what’s happening and to reconnect with yourself.
I bring a calm, grounded, and compassionate presence to my work, and I have experience supporting people with a wide range of difficulties, including anxiety, low mood, relationship challenges, life transitions, and the impact of stress. My role is to listen deeply, to be curious about your experience, and to reflect it back in a way that helps you understand yourself more fully. This process can open the way for clarity, movement, and new possibilities.
Therapy Approach
I can help with:
Anger management, Anxiety, Bereavement, Depression, Health related issues, Loss, Personal development, Relationships, Self esteem, Self-harm, Spirituality, Stress, Trauma, Women's issues, Work related issues.
Types of therapy I offer:
Creative therapy, Existential, Gestalt, Humanistic, Integrative, Interpersonal, Person centred, Psychosynthesis, Relational, Transpersonal.
Therapy explained
Psychosynthesis
Psychosynthesis is an approach that aims to integrate different aspects of a person’s personality into a cohesive whole, emphasizing personal growth and self-realization.