About Me
I'm Helen Billows, a trauma psychologist who's genuinely obsessed with how the nervous system works.
I spend my days doing EMDR therapy, supervising other therapists, wrangling my boisterous toddler, and translating complex trauma science into something that actually makes sense—without the fluff.
My Thoughts on Trauma
Trauma isn’t about weakness
— it’s about adaptation.
Most psychological difficulties make sense when you look at them through a trauma lens—or at minimum, there's generally a trauma component worth paying attention to.
I believe people can get better. Always. How that happens, what it looks like and what it involves depend on a number of factors, but I don’t accept “this is just how it is” as an endpoint, ever. Real change becomes possible when we work with your brain and body, not against them.
I’m not interested in just helping people cope. Coping always has a place, but my focus is on helping people feel better, function differently, and move forward in meaningful ways.
I work with nuance, ethics, and evidence—especially when trauma conversations become overly simplified or trend-driven. I'm personally allergic to trauma advice that sounds good on a reel or LinkedIn post, but falls apart once it hits clinical reality—aka, an actual person in an actual therapy session (my wheelhouse, btw).
I take this work seriously. I’m persistent, detail-oriented, and the perfect amount of stubborn—I don't give up when things get hard.
When you’re in, I’m in.