Helene Homer-Ishikawa, LCSW, CSW

Helene Homer-Ishikawa is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) licensed in Colorado with 23 years of clinical experience. She has a long history of helping people with anxiety, depression, relationship stress, trauma and grief. Her work also includes concerns around parenting, LGBT issues, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and major life changes.

She began her career focused on family and children and later expanded to support young adults, adults, and older adults. Much of her practice has been in a diverse state, so she has experience with people from many ethnicities, faiths, nationalities, and socio-economic backgrounds.

Helene uses psychodynamic therapy as a central approach. In sessions she pays attention to patterns that repeat over time, how past experiences affect present behavior, and the feelings that come up in relationships. Sessions are conversational and look at both feelings and everyday challenges.

She describes the counseling relationship as a respectful collaboration. That means she listens for what matters to each person and helps them test different ways of coping. Practical concerns like work, family demands, and health often shape what people bring to sessions.

Her practice addresses both immediate problems and longer-term patterns. People seeking help for anger, low self-esteem, caregiver stress, abandonment, aging issues, autism-related concerns, or dissociation may find this background relevant. Sessions are conducted in English and follow the procedures required for Colorado LCSWs.

How psychodynamic approaches translate to online work