- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Family of origin issues
- Anxiety and depression
About Helene
Helene Homer-Ishikawa is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and CSW practicing in Colorado with 23 years of experience. She began her career focused on family and children and has since worked with young adults, adults, and older adults. Her practice addresses anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, trauma and loss, and many life transitions. She also works with concerns such as parenting stress, LGBT issues, bipolar disorder, and ADHD.
Helene’s background includes long experience in a diverse state setting, so she has worked with people from many ethnicities, faiths, nationalities, socioeconomic backgrounds, genders, and sexual orientations. Early in her career she specialized in family work and family of origin concerns remain a point of focus. This often shows up as patterns from childhood affecting current relationships and expectations.
She uses psychodynamic therapy as her primary approach. That means sessions often look at long-standing patterns, early relationships, and how those influences show up now. Conversations may explore repeated ways of relating, underlying feelings, and connections between past experiences and present behavior.
In sessions she talks through feelings, relationship patterns, and practical coping steps. She helps people make sense of difficult emotions like grief, anger, and loss, and supports work on communication and self-esteem. Helene aims to combine careful attention to a person’s history with straightforward, practical conversation about what is happening now.
She practices in Colorado and offers services in English. The first step is to use the site matching process to schedule an initial session and discuss goals and expectations.
How psychodynamic work and online sessions fit together
Psychodynamic therapy looks at long-term patterns and early relationships to understand how they shape current behavior and feelings. It usually involves talking through repeated themes, exploring underlying emotions, and connecting past experiences to present challenges. This can help with relationship patterns, family of origin issues, grief, anxiety, and ongoing struggles that feel familiar across different situations.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work with each person to clarify goals and decide how much focus on earlier experiences versus practical coping is needed. This is a collaborative process and can change as the work progresses.
Confirm session formats before booking since the biography does not list specific online options. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. If phone or video are options, phone can be useful when video bandwidth is limited and video can help with visual cues in the conversation. Ask about the available formats when you schedule so sessions suit your day-to-day life.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
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Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
23+ years
Listed in
Colorado
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she work with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and parenting concerns, grief, trauma and loss, and a range of other issues listed in her profile such as ADHD and bipolar disorder.
What is her therapeutic style?
She primarily uses psychodynamic therapy, which focuses on patterns from earlier life and how they affect present behavior. Sessions combine exploring those patterns with practical conversation about current problems.
How much experience does she have?
She has 23 years of professional experience, including early specialization in family and children and later work with adults and older adults.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is listed as LCSW and CSW and practices in Colorado.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
Does she accept international clients?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
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