Helene Homer-IshikawaLCSW, CSW

Helene Homer-Ishikawa is a licensed clinical social worker based in Colorado with 23 years of practice. She began her career focusing on family and children and has since broadened her work to include young adults, adults, and older adults. She has experience supporting people from a range of ethnic, faith, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Her practice addresses common struggles like anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, trauma, and parenting concerns.

Her approach is grounded in Psychodynamic Therapy, which looks at patterns in thoughts, feelings, and relationships. Sessions are conversational and reflective. She pays attention to what shows up in the relationship between therapist and client as part of understanding current struggles.

Helene aims to accompany people through difficult transitions and losses. She emphasizes respect, compassion, and thoughtful listening. She encourages clients to name their feelings and to move at a pace that feels manageable.

People often come with stress, self-esteem worries, anger, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD-related challenges, or issues around identity and relationships. She also works with a range of additional concerns such as abandonment, caregiver stress, communication problems, and dissociation.

If you are thinking about help around pregnancy and childbirth related stress or parenting strain, she lists Pregnancy and childbirth among her interests and can discuss how to tailor sessions to those concerns.

How psychodynamic work translates to online therapy

Psychodynamic Therapy focuses on understanding patterns in thoughts, feelings, and relationships that show up again and again. It often involves talking about memories, recurring emotions, and how you relate to others to uncover repeated themes that affect daily life. This can help with anxiety, depression, grief, relationship struggles, and reactions tied to trauma.

In the online setting, a psychodynamic conversation still centers on listening and noticing patterns together. The therapist and client collaborate to identify what feels important, try different ways of understanding difficulties, and adjust the work as goals change. Deciding on the right approach is a joint process and will be shaped by your needs, goals, and comfort level.

The therapist's biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm available options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow check-ins during a short break. Some people prefer not being on camera sometimes, while others find video most helpful for connection; the therapist will discuss practical choices and tailor sessions to what helps you engage and make steady progress.