Helen Villiers

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Helen Villiers



Helen Villiers, LLB, PG Cert, PG Dip, MA is a psychotherapist with a Masters degree in Working Therapeutically with Adult Children of Narcissistic Parents. Helen trained in psychotherapy at USW and worked for the NHS for 5 years pre and post qualification. Helen now has a busy private practice; as well as working with clients recovering from narcissistic abuse, she also specializes in autism and ADHD, and is a couples' counsellor too. Together with co-author Katie, she hosts the successful podcast 'In Sight' where she gets to live out a lifelong dream of playing agony aunt to listeners, responding to letters, offering insights and healing to those who write in and those who tune in. Helen now lives in South Wales with her two children and t ...more

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You're Not the Problem: The...

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“You are not responsible for the pain someone feels as a consequence of their own behaviour.”
Helen Villiers, You're Not the Problem: The Impact of Narcissism and Emotional Abuse and How to Heal

“Learning to allow someone else to have their own feelings and experience is to no longer fix or rescue them.”
Helen Villiers, You're Not the Problem: The Impact of Narcissism and Emotional Abuse and How to Heal

“Parenting styles in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries relied on denying autonomy and weaponizing shame. The social norms of ignoring or “training” babies, using abandonment and stonewalling as punishment, while generally normalizing abuse, meant that, according to Kohut, we have the perfect conditions to create narcissism.”
Helen Villiers, You're Not the Problem: The Impact of Narcissism and Emotional Abuse and How to Heal



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