Helen Barnes
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Helen Barnes is an ICF PCC-accredited executive coach and workshop facilitator. She works with thoughtful, conscientious professionals who care deeply about their work and their people, and who often carry more than anyone sees. Her workshops focus on the inner side of working life: how pressure builds, how to spot burnout early, how to manage self-doubt, and how to think clearly and make sound judgement calls when the ground keeps shifting. Sessions are practical and interactive. Participants get space to reflect on their own situation and leave with something they can use straight away.
Before coaching, Helen spent 15 years in PR and communications, delivering campaigns, leading teams and heading up client portfolios. She knows first-hand what it's like to navigate politics and carry expectation and responsibility for others while under sustained pressure, and she brings that understanding into every session. Clients describe her as empathetic and astute, with a knack for asking the single question that changes how they see a situation. Her approach draws on positive psychology and neuroscience, alongside tools inspired by CBT, Transactional Analysis and systems thinking.
Qualifications
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Helen specialises in burnout prevention, self-doubt and imposter syndrome, and wellbeing under pressure. She combines accredited coaching skills, mental health training and real leadership experience to help people protect their wellbeing while continuing to perform well.
- Professional Certified Coach (PCC), accredited by the International Coaching Federation.
- Accredited Diploma in Transformational Coaching from Animas.
- Mental Health in Coaching: Integrative Approaches, Ethics and Best Practices through Animas.
- Further training in mental health, including TQUK Level 2, and stress management through CPD and The Skills Network.
- 15 years of experience in PR and communications, including leading teams and heading up client portfolios.
Skills You will improve
- Recognise the early signs of stress and burnout and know how to respond before they take hold.
- Manage self-doubt in the moment, so it has less influence over what you do.
- Make clearer and more confident judgement calls under pressure and uncertainty.
- Protect your energy and wellbeing through demanding periods.
- Stay steady and lead others well when the pressure is on.
User Feedback
| "Our instructor, Helen, was wonderful. I enjoyed that she made it centered on self reflection and encouraged collaboration." | "Gave us a good view of what passes unperceived during the day and gave us the structure on how to think to avoid coming to the burnout situation. Helen was really nice instructor, showed a lot of knowledge on the topic and was straight to the point." |
| "I think it was great that Helen followed such an interactive approach and motivated everyone to share his / her own experience on the topic." | "It was interactive, gave enough time for reflection and created a safe space for sharing." |