Heli Annika Giles, BACP

Heli Annika Giles is a qualified integrative therapeutic counsellor who works mainly through a person-centred approach. She is a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) - a professional body for counsellors and psychotherapists in the United Kingdom. She welcomes people who are taking the first step toward support and understands that initial contact can feel significant because she remembers similar feelings from her own experience.

She offers support for a range of common difficulties, including general and social anxiety, relationship challenges, low self-esteem and perfectionism, a sense of not belonging, stress and burnout - including work-related issues and career coaching - and trauma. She also recognises how current pressures such as the cost-of-living crisis can heighten worry, shame or loneliness, and she approaches those concerns with practical empathy.

Heli believes counselling is about understanding, gaining clarity and working through complex emotions rather than fixing someone or labelling what is wrong. Clients choose the focus and goals for therapy and she works alongside them to review progress. Counselling with her aims to help people challenge unhelpful thinking patterns, build coping skills and increase self-awareness so everyday triggers are easier to anticipate and manage. Relationship work can be undertaken individually or as couples work, with attention to boundaries, past patterns and healthier ways of relating.