PhD, psychotherapist, supervisor (STOry), EMDR-Consultant, adjunct professor of legal and criminal psychology, sex counsellor.
I am the founder and CEO of Mindroot Ltd. I provide psychotherapy, psychological coaching, and supervision for both adults and young individuals.. I am specialized particularly in EMDR-therapy. Many of my customers have had difficult experiences and trauma. Violence, death of a loved one, divorce, safety threats, publicity challenges, difficult interpersonal relationships, narcissism, sports failures, and workplace conflict situations are topics that are addressed at my reception. I collaborate with the police, prosecutors, insurance companies, occupational health service providers, the Journalist Support Fund, NGOs, sports coaches, HUS and several law firms in Helsinki and Turku. I am in the Kela’s rehabilitation service provider registry and conduct outsourced therapy for HUS and YTHS.
I have had a private practice since 2010. Prior to that, I worked as a psychologist in the National Bureau of Investigation for 10 years (during 2002-2008 as a Researcher for the Academy of Finland) and in 2010–2020, in addition to my clinical work, I was the head of a law firm. In addition to my clinical work, I maintain an blog, write books and academic papers. I actively develop new methods related to EMDR therapy, especially for mental coaching in sports and arts, supervision and police criminal investigation. I have written or co-authored more than 60 peer-reviewed scientific articles and four books.
I work fluently in Finnish and English.
Contact info: helina.hakkanen@mielenjuuri.fi
Mindroot ('Mielenjuuri' in Finnish) offers behavioural science expert services to individuals, companies, authorities and organizations.
The security of your data is of critical importance to us. Read more in our data protection policy statement (in Finnish):