Helene Homer-Ishikawa
Compassionate, experienced Colorado LCSW
- Credentials
- LCSW, CSW
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed in
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Helene
Helene Homer-Ishikawa is a licensed clinical social worker in Colorado with 23 years of practice. She began her career focused on family and children and has since expanded her work across the lifespan. She brings long experience helping people manage anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and relationship worries.
Her style is grounded and respectful. She listens closely and offers steady support as people talk through difficult feelings. She aims to create a space where someone can say hard things and consider changes at a manageable pace.
Background and approach
Helene uses psychodynamic approaches to look at patterns that repeat in relationships and personal life. That often means noticing how past experiences influence present reactions. This can help people understand recurring problems and make different choices.
She has worked with a wide range of backgrounds, faiths, and identities during a long career in a diverse state. Common concerns she addresses include parenting, family stress, LGBT issues, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and coping with life changes. People who choose her can expect compassionate attention and practical conversation about goals.
She invites clients to bring what matters most to them and to move at a pace that feels right.
Psychodynamic work and online access
Psychodynamic Therapy looks for repeating themes and patterns that shape how someone reacts to stress and relationships. It often involves talking about early experiences, current relationships, and recurring emotions to uncover what drives familiar responses. This approach can be helpful for anxiety, relationship problems, grief, trauma, and ongoing mood challenges.Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, history, and preferences to decide if psychodynamic work fits. If needed, she will adjust pace and focus so the work matches what the person hopes to change.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week and to keep continuity when life gets disruptive. The variety of formats also allows clients to choose how they communicate so the therapeutic work can continue in ways that feel most useful.
Psychodynamic Therapy
Exploring how earlier relationships and patterns still shape the present, often over a longer stretch of time. It relies on conversation and reflection rather than exercises.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point