Helena C. Simon

I offer online integrative, humanistic, existential, and systemic-based talk therapy while coming from a holistic body-centred approach. I trained specifically in Existential Psychotherapy, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (SP), Brainspotting, Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR), Family and Couple Therapy and Autism support after a long clinical time as family-midwife in hospital, home and Geburtshaus settings in Germany. I am now residing in Ireland and work solely online.

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy was developed by Pat Ogden and colleagues and is based on Hakomi Therapy. It is a talk-based body therapy that addresses both trauma and inner beliefs that form our responses to life in the present. Deep Brain Reorienting was developed by the Scottish psychiatrist Dr. Frank Corrigan and is equally a body-centred method that works directly with the underlying shock experience from acute and relational trauma. The deep understanding of trauma focussed work developed by Janina Fisher, Bethany Brand, and Ruth Lanius, to name but few, is equally a cornerstone in my clinical work.

Following my retirement from midwifery, where I supported more than 1000 women and families clinically and emotionally throughout their transition in pregnancy, birth, and in the first year of the child, I completed my BA in Holistic Counselling and Psychotherapy here in Ireland and an MSc in Psychotherapy Studies from an existential angle at the NSCP, London. I am a certified practitioner for Sensorimotor Psychotherapy with the study of all levels I, II, and III at the Sensorimotor Institute in Boulder, Colorado, US.

Coming from a medical background, I have always been curious about our biological foundations and have studied Autism at UCC, Ireland, to understand the differences of our neurobiological foundations better and the wide field that the current brain science of neurobiology and neuropsychology has brought to the work in psychotherapy within the past 15 years. All these theoretical studies have enriched and supported my practice in psychotherapy and therefore the clients I have the honour to work with.