Helen Woodrum, LCSW

Helen Woodrum is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Illinois with ten years of outpatient experience. She has worked in community mental health centers and in an outpatient behavioral health clinic within a hospital. Her work addresses stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, ADHD, relationship and family concerns, grief, intimacy issues, sleep problems, parenting strain, anger, and self-esteem difficulties.

Helen grew interested early in how complex trauma affects daily life. Over the years she has focused on ways people can reprocess difficult memories and reduce their ongoing impact. She emphasizes starting with the problem that feels most urgent for the person in front of her. Sessions focus on practical steps the client can use between meetings as well as understanding patterns that keep problems repeating.

Her clinical approach draws on Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT). Helen also considers social and environmental factors when shaping a plan because of her social work training. That means looking at relationships and daily demands alongside internal patterns.

In sessions she talks through specific strategies, coping skills, and ways to notice repeating family-of-origin patterns that affect current relationships. She helps people learn ways to manage emotions, set boundaries, and make clearer choices about work and caregiving responsibilities.

Her style is straightforward and practical. People who want to reduce symptoms, handle life changes, or investigate how early family dynamics still shape choices may find her a fit.

Therapeutic approaches and how online sessions can help