Helen Jones

I am a qualified Systemic Psychotherapist. I completed a 4-year Clinical Masters training at the Institute of Family Therapy/Birkbeck University of London.

Currently I live in NSW, and I will be moving to South Australia in 2025 which is very exciting! Currently I offer Zoom appointments, and I can be flexible about days and times of day.

I have 23 years of trained and qualified experience, and I have worked in both child & adolescent and adult mental health settings in NHS UK and NSW Health. I also have a trauma-informed background and have worked at the Australian Childhood Foundation.

My expertise is working with individuals, couples and families around relationships. I will work with teenagers together with their parents/carers, but I do not work with children individually.

Therapeutic Approach

• Systemic Therapy

What is Systemic Therapy?

Systemic Psychotherapy is an evidence-based model of therapy from families to orchestras, coworkers to sports teams focusing on relationships between a group of people, rather than solely on the individual’s thoughts and feelings (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy)

Systemic Family and Couple Therapy is as effective, and in many cases more effective than alternative interventions for the following reasons (Stratton 2016)

• Systemic Therapy is effective for families of children and adults without pathologising any one particular person as ‘the problem’. Instead, Systemic Therapists work with the family or relationship system as a whole, by supporting them each to make changes to how they interact and engage with each other
• It is effective across the life cycle spanning development stages from under fives to old age
• Working therapeutically with individuals together with their families and/or significant others enables the use of individuals’ relationship as a resource and reduces stress and difficulty for all family members
• Systemic Family Therapy has found to be particularly effective with severe and complex issues which have usually required intensive treatment. It is therefore a cost-effective treatment which can produce sustainable change.

Stratton, P. (2016) The Evidence Base of Family Therapy and Systemic Practice. Association for Family Therapy, UK.)