Helen Villiers
Helen Villiers is a Sunday Times bestselling author, social media personality and psychotherapist specialising in narcissism, emotional abuse and neurodivergence and couples therapy. She also co-hosts the In Sight podcast with Katie McKenna.
Website: insightpodcast.com
Twitter: @LiberationHelen
Instagram: @helenvilliersma
Tik Tok: @liberationhelen
Website: liberationhelen.co.uk
Biography
Helen is the co-author, alongside Katie McKenna, of the Sunday Times Bestseller You’re Not the Problem: The Impact of Narcissism and Emotional Abuse and How to Heal published by Hachette in April 2024. It was an instant Sunday Times and Irish Bestseller. She has been a guest expert on BBC radio 4’s Woman’s hour, on a range of podcasts and in Stylist magazine.
Helen Villiers LLB; PgCert; PgDip; MA is a practising psychotherapist whose specialisms are working with adult children of narcissistic parents, neurodivergence and couples therapy. She has a cross-platform social media following of 500,000 (Facebook, TikTok and Instagram and Patreon)
The combination of Helen’s post-qualification Masters dissertation in Working Therapeutically with Adult children of Narcissistic Parents. and her hands-on experience of working both with adult children of narcissistic parents and survivors of narcissistic partners makes her uniquely qualified to advise on narcissism . Existing books and advice are typically based on anecdotal or personal experience because there is very little academic research available.
Together with the psychotherapist Katie McKenna, Helen co-hosts the successful podcast ‘In Sight – Exposing Narcissism’ Podcast (currently over a million downloads) on which she gets to live out a lifelong dream of playing agony aunt, responding to letters and offering insights and healing to those who write in and tune in. Through the podcast’s associated Facebook page and courses, she supports people specifically with Identifying narcissistic traits, understanding emotional abuse, coping with rejection, identity rebuilding and healing the wounds of their inner child after narcissistic parenting.
Helen and Katie have provided expert insights and comments to mainstream media including The BBC‘s Woman’s Hour, The independent, Hello magazine, The mirror, The Express, Tula, Yahoo News and Yahoo Life, Good to Know, Ireland Live, RTE radio and TV and Psychology Today.
Books
YOU’RE NOT THE PROBLEM, co-written by Helen Villiers and Katie McKenna, was published by Hachette/Yellow Kite in the UK and US Hodder in April 2024 in physical, audio and digital formats. It unpacks the fallout from being raised by narcissistic parents, offers a practical framework for how to recognise unhealthy patterns and provides tools to help those affected by long-term trauma to heal.
YOU’RE NOT THE PROBLEM is an instant Sunday Times and Irish Bestseller.
Praise for You’re Not the Problem
‘This book genuinely had me engulfed all week… love the book’ - Shay Kaur Grewal, BBC Radio London
‘A fantastic book, almost so detailed that we would have to go back to it time and time again’ - Oliver Callan, RTE Radio 1
US edition: YOU’RE NOT THE PROBLEM