Helen Cook, LMHC, LPC

Helen Cook brings 17 years of counseling experience and a broad professional background to her therapeutic work. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Florida and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania - these credentials indicate she is licensed to provide professional mental health services in those states.

Her path to counseling includes clinical nursing service with 21 years in the Army, a decade-plus as a biology teacher, and long-term work as a Weight Watchers coach. Those roles inform a practical, strengths-based approach that blends health, education, and behavior change perspectives. Helen has worked with adolescents, couples, and adults and draws on that range when addressing concerns such as stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, anger, grief, intimacy issues, eating and sleeping problems, self-esteem, career transitions, bipolar disorder, depression, and compassion fatigue.

Clinically, she integrates attachment-based and client-centered principles with evidence-informed methods including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), hypnotherapy, solution-focused techniques, and trauma-focused interventions. She also uses modalities such as Brainspotting and tapping when appropriate. A strong emphasis on the mind-body connection runs through her work, and she seeks to identify and address that link as part of the healing process.