About Adrien
Adrien Helander is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people facing depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, trauma, and stress. They also support those dealing with ADHD, grief, intimacy concerns, and challenges related to LGBT identity. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish for people in Washington.
Adrien keeps sessions straightforward and collaborative. They create a nonjudgmental space where clients can speak openly about feelings and choices. Goals are set together, and clients direct the pace and focus of work.
Background and approach
Clinical work often uses practical techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot and shift unhelpful thinking. Mindfulness practices are introduced to help manage strong emotion and improve focus. Dialectical behavior therapy skills are taught for coping with intense moods and for building better emotion regulation.
Adrien also uses eye movement desensitization and reprocessing when addressing traumatic memories and related symptoms. They draw on client-centered principles to follow each person’s values and priorities during care. Vocational concerns, life changes, and issues around identity and intimacy are commonly part of the work.
With nine years of experience and a Washington LMHC credential, Adrien aims to make therapy practical and relatable. People often leave sessions with concrete tools to try between meetings. If someone prefers speaking Spanish, Adrien can meet in that language.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Adrien commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness practices to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and learn new ways to respond. CBT breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions so clients can try small experiments. Mindfulness teaches simple attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity and improve focus.They also draw on dialectical behavior therapy skills for strong emotions and relationship strain. DBT skills include ways to tolerate distress, regulate intense moods, and improve communication. These approaches are explained in plain terms and tailored to each person's situation so clients can decide what feels most useful.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Adrien will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what they hope to change, then recommend techniques to try. The therapist and client adjust strategies over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and practicing skills together. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a camera isn’t convenient. Chat and text allow brief check-ins, written reflections, and more frequent touchpoints between longer sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English, Spanish