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Registered Counsellor
Helena Green
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Helena has offices in Bunbury and Perth WA. Australia. She is the Senior Consultant and Counsellor at inSync for life in the areas of Relationships, Sexuality and Intimacy.She is an accredited Clinical Psychosexual therapist, counsellor and Clinical Sexologist with a Post Graduate Diploma in Sexology from Curtin University, and a Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling from Notre Dame University. Level 2 Gottman Therapy, She is an accredtited Clinical Supervisor and member of the Society of Sexologists.Helena provides counselling for individuals, and couples who are experiencing relationship concerns, impacting in the area their sexual self-esteem and wanting to enhance intimacy and sexuality. Working with individuals in the area of pelvic pain. She has an established career as a Specialist cancer, and breast cancer nurse, and as a result, has a special interest in sexual functioning, pelvic pain, menopause, and intimacy realted to cancer and treatments (hormonally related changes that impact on ones sense of self, relationships and sexuality).Helena also has extensive experience counselling with young people who live with adiverse intellectual and physical abilities, previously working at SECCA, (Sexuality, Education, Counselling & Consulting Agency), a non-profit organisation in Perth, in the area of human relationships and sexuality to people who live with a disability.While working in private practice at inSync for life, she is a Consultant Sexologist at a private medical clinic in Perth. She regularly provides presentations for clients of not-for-profit organisations such as the Cancer Council of Western Australia, and workshops for health professional and community based organisations and clinical supervision. Helena also provides online psychosexual counseling to indiviuals and couples in Australia and internationally.
Qualifications
Publications
• The effects of pre-operative menopausal status and hormone replacement therapy (HRT) on sexuality and quality of life after risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy. (co-author) Maturitas. 2016 Mar;85:42-8.
• Discussing Sexuality With Women Considering Risk-Reducing Salpingo-oophorectomy: An International Survey of Current Practice in Gynecologic Oncology. (co-author) Int J Gynecol Cancer. 2016 Jul 26
• How does adjuvant chemotherapy affect menopausal symptoms, sexual function, and quality of life after breast cancer? (co-author) Menopause. 2016 Jun 6.
• Prevalence of sexual dysfunction after risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy. (co-author) Gynecol Oncol. 2016 Jan; 140(1):95-100
• Nature and severity of menopausal symptoms and their impact on quality of life and sexual function in cancer survivors compared with women without a cancer history. (co-author) Menopause. 2014 Mar; 21(3):267-74.
Affiliations
• Australian Society of Sexologists
• Australian Menopause Society
• ACA WA chapter
• ACA – College of Supervisors – COS Registered Supervisor
• Gottman Institute
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