Helen Coffman

Helen Coffman is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Texas with 16 years of professional experience helping people navigate a wide range of personal challenges. She earned degrees from Abilene Christian University and the University of Texas at Austin, and brings both academic training and long-term practical experience to her work.

Before obtaining her clinical social work license, Helen spent 25 years teaching parents how to manage the transitions that come with childbearing and parenting. Her counseling background includes work in private practice, community service settings, and hospice medical social work, providing a broad perspective on life changes and caregiving stress.

Helen has assisted individuals facing anxiety, grief, trauma and abuse, faith challenges, depression, and self-esteem concerns. Her listed specialties include stress and anxiety, trauma and abuse, faith-related concerns, grief, coping with life changes, relationship difficulties, family conflict, parenting challenges, career difficulties, depression, and compassion fatigue. She also has experience addressing codependency, panic attacks, abandonment issues, caregiving stress, control issues, and related concerns.

Her therapeutic approach draws from several evidence-based and relational methods, including dialectical behavior therapy, client-centered therapy, solution-focused therapy, trauma-focused therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and psychoanalytic therapy. Helen is licensed to practice clinical social work in Texas and applies these approaches in ways that fit each person’s strengths and needs.

Recognizing that choosing to seek help is a personal and often private decision, Helen emphasizes the importance of the client-therapist relationship. She views connection and comfort between client and therapist as central to effective counseling, and she honors each person’s life struggles while helping them identify strengths to carry forward and grow beyond past difficulties. This process is intended to support people as they address current pain, trauma, or disappointment.