About Helen
Helen Hovsepian is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California with 25 years of professional experience. She helps people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure where to begin.
Background and approach
Her style is steady and direct, aimed at helping clients take practical steps toward feeling better. She focuses on common life challenges such as stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and recovery from trauma and abuse.
Helen also supports people facing addictions, relationship strain, low self-esteem, guilt and shame, and questions about life purpose. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish to accommodate more people.
In session she works to build trust quickly so thoughts and feelings can be shared without judgment. Helen combines several approaches to fit each person’s needs, drawing from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, and somatic methods among others.
She explains options plainly and helps people try what feels most useful. Helen encourages pacing the work to match readiness, addressing painful material only when the client feels prepared.
She aims to help clients identify immediate coping skills and longer-term changes that support growth. Her goal is to assist people in meeting basic needs so they can recover and move forward.
Getting started involves a short intake and a plan for scheduling sessions that fit the person’s life. Helen accepts international clients and offers multiple online formats to make regular sessions practical for busy schedules.
Approaches that meet you online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person in front of the therapist. It emphasizes listening, reflecting, and creating a trusting space where people can talk through feelings and decisions. This approach helps with anxiety, grief, and feeling stuck by prioritizing the client's own goals.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical strategies to challenge unhelpful thoughts and build new coping skills for anxiety, depression, and stress. Sessions often include simple exercises to try between meetings.
Somatic therapy brings attention to bodily experience and how stress shows up physically. It can be useful for trauma, post-traumatic stress, and intense anxiety by offering grounding techniques and gentle body-focused practices to reduce overwhelm.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful when visual connection helps the conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter audio check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging offer brief check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or a way to fit therapy into a busy day. These formats make it easier to attend regular sessions and keep progress moving forward.
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- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- Spanish