Helen Woodrum, LCSW

Helen Woodrum is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with ten years of outpatient practice in Illinois. She has worked in community mental health centers and in an outpatient behavioral health clinic inside a hospital. Her work commonly addresses stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, ADHD, relationship and family concerns, grief, parenting issues, anger, self-esteem, career questions, and coping with life changes.

Helen developed an early interest in trauma and has spent much of her post-graduate learning on the effects of complex trauma. She focuses on helping people process difficult experiences and reduce the ways those experiences affect daily life. Helen uses practical techniques to help people notice patterns, manage intense feelings, and build steadier routines.

Her approach draws on attachment-based ideas and client-centered practice, with cognitive-behavioral and emotion-focused tools used when helpful. She favors starting with the problem that feels most urgent and then working step by step. Sessions include skill practice, moment-to-moment reflection, and planning for manageable changes between meetings.

Helen values the social work perspective and looks at how relationships and environment shape difficulties. She pays attention to stress that comes from caregiving, chronic illness, and family of origin issues. She also addresses concerns such as codependency, control issues, dissociation, and postpartum mood changes when they arise.

People who come to Helen for anger-related concerns can expect clear, practical strategies and support for learning new responses. She also works with matters of intimacy, communication, sexual and gender identity, and mood disorders, helping clients develop awareness and everyday tools that fit their lives.

How Helen uses therapy approaches online