Helen Villiers LLB, PG Cert, MA

17/12/2025

17/12/2025

Nothing heightens tension and emotion like Christmas. If you’re needing understanding, support and tips to get you through, my course Coping With Christmas includes a month’s free community access to The Hub.

16/12/2025

Sound familiar? This is typical with a toxic ex. Accusing the victim of their own behaviour. Making demands, the toxic parent siding with the abuser. All very familiar. Get help and understanding on The Hub

13/12/2025

Ugh Simon 🤢 Triangulation, smear campaign, gaslighting, superiority all leading to Rachel’s isolation. Sound familiar?

12/12/2025

LOTS of you will relate to never feeling good enough - but if you don't even know what "good" looks like to you, how will you ever get there?

11/12/2025

Sound familiar? Part two coming tomorrow!

03/12/2025

Shaming the behaviour OR the character? Hear more in ep 34 - available now

02/12/2025

OOF - this one is hard to hear. Episode 34 is available now.

25/11/2025

One-off immersion sessions can be incredibly helpful, and my clients regularly tell me they walk away with a level of clarity they hadn’t expected. I also know they’re not something everyone has the ability to access, which is why once a month I offer an immersion session where we record the work, anonymise it, and use it as part of The Liberation Effect.

It’s the same session I normally do, the same depth and pace. The only difference is the recording. You’re fully anonymised, nothing identifying is ever shared, and you get your own copy afterwards. It's amazing how you'll find hearing yourself back makes things click in a way they didn’t during the session itself.

I know that so many of you have told me that real therapeutic work resonates with you in a way theory or interviews rarely can, and these sessions allow others to learn from something genuine while keeping you completely protected.

If you’d like to work with me in a published immersion session, the link is in the comments.

Alternatively, if you'd like to book a private immersion session, you can do that here: https://tidycal.com/liberationacademy/immersion-session

24/11/2025

Listen to and I talk about the challenge of being no contact with a toxic parent. The Liberation Effect is available on all platforms

20/11/2025

Letting children learn they will survive difficult emotions is absolutely vital. Otherwise we teach them to avoid them.

19/11/2025

Knowing who you are is the foundation of recovery from emotional abuse.

If you focus on building your identity, you learn your values and beliefs. If you know your values and beliefs you know your boundaries. And the more you build that knowledge the more you notice the moment your boundary is crossed. And instead of muting yourself to avoid rejection or criticism or conflict; your voice starts to get louder and louder until you no longer ignore those who demand you stay small for their comfort.

Building identity is done through play, experience and experiment. Today I stepped into play and chose sparkly green nails. Just because I liked them. said ‘that’s not like you’ when he saw them. I said ‘or maybe it is and I just haven’t allowed it to be’.

If you’re recovering build yourself brick by brick. Allow yourself mistakes and learn what you love, like and dislike.

Thank you .beauty for my sparkly nails, they’re perfect. ❤️