INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOTHERAPY & SKILLS COAChING CoupleS & polycules counselling
Helen Brice UKCP
Psychotherapist, Skills Coach, DBT & RO DBT Practitioner, Dialectician, Musician
About Me
My Experience And Expertise
Welcome! I'm Helen Brice. I am Founder and Director of Stimmung Therapy Services Limited, and a highly experienced psychotherapist for individuals, couples and polycules, and am passionate about the efficacy of my work. My experience comes from working in five different therapy settings: a London-based conservatoire for music and dance, the NHS, the prison service and young offender institution, private hospital, and private practice.
My expertise is in performance and generalised anxiety, work-related stress, depression, relationship problems, loneliness, trauma (PTSD and CPTSD), loss, identity issues. I also work in the field of diagnosis, especially chemical imbalance (Bipolar Disorder), and people who experience emotional instability as manifest in borderline and antisocial personality styles (EUPD), and with clients who are emotionally over-controlled, who have personalities that are avoidant, 'workaholic', obsessive compulsive, paranoid and also chronically depressed or have anorexia nervosa.
I am intensively trained in standard Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and Radically Open DBT (RO DBT). I founded RO DBT Clinics UK with associate Clinical Psychologists Dr Alex Fowke and Ian Wootton, and we run the first private RO DBT programme in the UK.
I work with couples and individuals aged 13 years old and upwards, who are based in the UK and overseas. I also specialise in immediate, short term, intensive or brief intervention Psychotherapy & Skills Coaching for teens; and "Damage Limitation" directive therapy sessions for couples.
I am affirmative with Gender, Sexuality and Relationship Diversity (GSRD), unconventional lifestyles and relationships, and with neurodiversity (especially ADHD) for adults and teenagers.
I co-created and run the Stimmung Therapy Programme for musicians and those in the creative field with associate existential psychotherapist and musician Miranda Jackson.
Why Me ?
I have a calm and active presence, am attentive, challenging when needed, and practical where desired. I work intuitively, and change the way I work with every client. As a musician, former music producer and artist manager, and having worked in the Arts for many years, I have unique attunement with my creative clients, and an understanding of the workings of the music, film and theatre industry. I work flexibly around performance, writing or tour commitments.
I am always willing to liaise with other professionals in your care, if that is your requirement. Some people find the use of diagnoses helpful, whereas others find it particularly unhelpful. I'll work with you whatever diagnosis means to you, and whether you have a diagnosis or not.
Sessions take place in person in my quiet, accessible room in London west end's Golden Square, or via online video, or on the phone, whichever platform suits your lifestyle.
I have a passion for the Arts, and an affinity with those in the creative field including musicians, dancers, actors, singers, artists, writers, DJs, theatre practitioners, artist managers and backstage crew.
My Approach
Metaphorically speaking, I sit side-by-side with you, exploring your world view, working from your own experience and understanding of how you make sense of life in the here and now. This is Existential Psychotherapy: an overtly philosophical approach that allows me to venture deeply with you very quickly, and has an impactful and lasting effect, whether time-limited (anything from eight weeks) or long term (thirty weeks or more).
Incorporating Existential-Phenomenology as well as skills-based therapy can help facilitate change, which can be useful when habitual responses are no longer effective. This proves most effective for musicians and creatives experiencing so-called Imposter Syndrome, crises of confidence and performance related anxiety, and is usually short term (about 10 weeks, depending on funding).
DBT and RO DBT are prescriptive behaviour therapies, and have set treatment programmes, as well as bespoke individual sessions, and may include out-of-hours skills coaching on a case-by-case basis.
For those who prefer to stay out of the therapy room, I create individualised Mental Fitness Programmes at your home.