A somatic, holistic therapy practice for the long, gentle work of feeling safe inside your own life again.
You are not a cookie-cutter NPC, and your situation is not a checklist. We will build your work together — and we will adjust it as you adjust.
— Helen
Hi. I'm Helen.
If you've cycled through therapists who felt too clinical, too formulaic, or too quick to send you back into your week before the work was finished — I get it. I've sat in both chairs.
I'm a licensed clinical social worker in downtown Salt Lake City. I'm also a neurodivergent person who has done my own long, careful work. That shapes everything about how I show up in the room.
Therapy here is slow on purpose. Your nervous system is not a worksheet. Your story is not a treatment plan we lift from a binder. We build yours together, and we adjust it as you adjust. When you're on my caseload, I will do everything I can to help you succeed in every way — relationships you thought were unhealable, pain you've been carrying in your body for years, the part of you that has been holding it all together while you waited for permission to set it down.
You don't have to mask. You don't have to perform. You don't have to be anyone but yourself.
I work primarily with adults who want depth, not a quick fix — and who need someone who understands both neurodivergence and the long arc of trauma recovery.
ADHD, autistic, AuDHD. You've spent your life translating yourself for other rooms. This one doesn't ask you to translate.
Complex trauma, single-event trauma, the trauma that lives in your body even after your mind has moved on. We work with all of it — somatically, not just verbally.
The everyday cost of running an ADHD brain in a neurotypical world. Overwhelm, paralysis, the inability to start the thing you said you'd start. We work on systems and on the underneath of why systems keep collapsing.
At work, at home, with family of origin. The slow, careful work of saying no — and the deeper work of repairing what you thought was unhealable.
Any chapter of self-discovery, transition, or coming-back-to-yourself. Inclusion is not a separate badge here — it's built into the room.
Chronic pain, chronic tension, the body's own knowing. Clients have come in carrying physical pain for years and left it on the floor of this office. Not every time. But often enough that we keep showing up to find out.
If you've made it this far down the page, you are probably in the right place.
The practice is somatic and holistic. We work with the whole person — body, nervous system, spirit, story — using five modalities that fit together like a quiet room.
The grounding. Clinical, evidence-informed, and unhurried. Where we name what's happening.
The body's knowing. Tracking sensation, settling the nervous system, returning to the inside of your own skin.
Regulation, repair, return. Used in session and given to you to take home as a daily practice.
An energetic reset. Offered as an optional modality — only when it fits, never as the main course.
Crystal and Tibetan sound for the moments when language stops working and the nervous system needs to land somewhere deeper.
Helen De-Lovely is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, somatic practitioner, and Reiki practitioner based in downtown Salt Lake City. She has spent her career working at the intersection of clinical depth and embodied healing — and she is, openly, a neurodivergent clinician who has done her own long work.
She believes in-person therapy is the most effective form of this work, and she offers virtual sessions for clients who need them. She doesn't fake it, and she doesn't ask you to. The room she builds is professional, grounded, and warm — and there is room in it for laughter, for grief, for the parts of you that don't usually get to come.
The practice is located in downtown Salt Lake City, in a private office designed to feel less like a clinic and more like a quiet home. Soft light. No fluorescents. Sound bowls within reach. Plants, fabric, and warmth instead of white walls.
In-person sessions are the heart of the work — but virtual sessions are available for clients who need them, especially for chapters when getting to the office is more than the work itself.
You don't have to arrive composed. You don't have to have prepared anything. Most first sessions are just a slow conversation about what brought you, and what kind of pace will feel right.
The practice is self-pay. That is a deliberate choice — it keeps the work between you and me, and it keeps the room free of insurance-shaped sessions, hurried hours, and diagnoses you didn't ask for.
A short conversation, by phone or video, to feel out fit. No pressure, no script. If we're not the right match, I'll tell you and point you toward a clinician who is.
The core of the work. Weekly to start, then we adjust pace together once we know what your nervous system is asking for.
Longer sessions for days when the work needs room. Used selectively — not every week, and never just because.
No — the practice is out-of-network with all plans. After each session I provide a superbill, which most clients submit to their insurance for partial out-of-network reimbursement. I can walk you through it in your consult.
Yes. Lighting is soft. There are no scented candles. Fidget objects are available, and there's no expectation that you sit still or hold eye contact. You're allowed to take off your shoes, sit on the floor, lay down — whatever your body asks for. Arriving early to settle in is welcome.
It varies. Some come for a specific season and complete it in three to six months. Others stay longer because the work we're doing is foundational. There is no obligation to stay beyond what the work asks of you.
I integrate parts work and trauma-focused approaches alongside somatic methods. Specific modality questions are best answered in a consult — that way I can speak directly to your situation rather than in the abstract.
Never. They're tools I offer when they fit the work and when you want them. Many clients only ever do talk and somatic; others ask for sound or Reiki when they need a different kind of reset. The work is yours.
Yes. In-person is the heart of the practice, but virtual sessions are available — especially helpful for weeks when getting to the office is more than the work itself. Telehealth runs through a secure, HIPAA-compliant platform.
Send a note. We'll schedule a free 15-minute consult by phone or video and decide together whether the room is a match.
Reach out. I'd love to hear from you. No script, no pressure, no obligation to book anything after.