Helena Boyd

Biography

Helena is a certified Somatic Psychotherapist (Body Psychotherapist) with over 19 years’ experience in that capacity, seeing hundreds of clients over that time. She works from her home practice in Inglewood, Perth, Western Australia WA, where she provides counselling and psychotherapy, seeing men and women individually. She works with a range of issues, including depression and anxiety, grief and loss, relationship difficulties, parenting concerns, low self-esteem, stress relief, life transitions and codependence.

Helena is married to Richard Boyd and they have been in a committed and loving relationship together for 27 years. They are blessed to be parents of a lovely teenage daughter.

Helena completed 5 years training with Core Energetics Australia. She draws on an eclectic blend of Psychotherapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Attachment Theory and body-based approaches including Core Energetics and Trauma Sensitive Yoga. In her embodied approach, she examines how your life issues and history correlate with your bodily symptoms and how they influence each other and work together. Certain complaints often point to the need to correct imbalances that exist within other vital aspects of your life.

Helena places great importance in providing an environment where you feel safe to explore your difficulties. In a private setting, Helena provides a supportive, empathetic and confidential environment to examine your situation. Her emphasis is on creating a good therapeutic relationship, which is a very important factor in successful therapy. Her intention is to work collaboratively for deep exploration, to help explore unconscious beliefs, change self-defeating patterns and set tangible goals with you. She brings depth to every session, no matter how brief, dedicating herself fully to offer the best support to those who choose her as their therapist.

Her personal experience of Somatic Psychotherapy is that it goes beyond “band-aiding” the symptoms and having to resort to using coping and compensation techniques. Instead, her objective is to treat and heal the underlying causes of your issues. She understands how thoughts, feelings and the inner life are sustained and reinforced in your body. She explores limiting beliefs, energetic familial patterns and helps you to discover and harness internal resources, to vitalize you and restore your balance, harmony, and health. Her intention is to release deeply held patterns safely, thereby providing you with contentment and vitality. Helena’s vision is to enable you live an enriched and integrated life.

Prior to practicing as a therapist, Helena worked for 13 years as a Software and Electronic Engineer. Originally from Ireland, she has a strong affinity with her Irish Celtic origins and draws on the wisdom, warmth and congeniality of her culture. The old Irish concept of ‘Anam Chara’ (soul friend) is as applicable now as it was in ancient times. Her philosophy is that attuning to another is a deeply spiritual thing, as it involves an ability to honour and have affinity with another person, and a genuine ability to forget ourselves when we interrelate.

Qualifications

Advanced Diploma Core Energetics Psychotherapy, Core Energetics Australia (2005-2006)
Diploma Core Energetics Psychotherapy, Core Energetics Australia (2001-2005)
Diploma Shamanic Practice, IKON Institute, Australia (2005-2007)
Trauma Sensitive Yoga for Embodiment and Healing, Thera Foundation (100 hours) (2022)
Bachelor of Electronic Engineering, University of Limerick, Ireland (1991)