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Built on the Belief That Everything Is Connected

Helios Integrative Health was founded on a simple but consequential premise: that therapy and coaching, clinical healing and human development, cannot truly serve people when they operate in isolation from each other. Helios brings them together.

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The Whole Person Is Not a Metaphor

Most practices say they treat the whole person. Few are structured to actually do it.

Treating the whole person requires more than a broad list of presenting concerns. It requires a framework that holds human beings as interconnected systems — where what shows up in the body is related to what's happening in relationships, where career stagnation has emotional roots, where clinical symptoms are inseparable from the conditions of a person's life. It requires practitioners who think systemically and coordinate accordingly.

The Helios name reflects this orientation. Helios — the sun — illuminates everything at once. We named the practice after that quality of light: comprehensive, clear, reaching all corners. The Helios Assessment was built on the same principle: before you can be helped, you need to see where you actually are — all of it, not just the part that hurts the most right now.

This is not a philosophy of everything-at-once complexity. It is a philosophy of honest, whole-picture understanding — which is what makes genuine change possible.

Francesca Licciardi, MA, LMHC, LPCC

Francesca Licciardi
MA, LMHC, LPCC

Francesca Licciardi
MA, LMHC, LPCC

Francesca is a licensed psychotherapist and the clinical anchor of the Helios practice. She holds licensure as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Washington state and a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) in California, allowing her to offer telehealth therapy to clients across both states.

Her clinical training integrates several frameworks: Imago Relationship Therapy, which she uses with couples and individuals to understand the relational dynamics formed in early life and how they play out in adult connection; clinical hypnotherapy, a specialized modality she uses for trauma, anxiety, phobias, sleep, and subconscious pattern work; and a broadly integrative approach to individual psychotherapy that draws on psychodynamic, somatic, and humanistic traditions.

Francesca works with individuals navigating anxiety, depression, relational difficulty, life transitions, grief, and the particular disorientation that comes when external success and internal experience don't match. She also works with couples seeking to move beyond the same arguments and toward genuine understanding.

She believes that therapy is most powerful when it is practiced with patience, precision, and a deep respect for the complexity of the person in front of her. She is not interested in quick fixes — she is interested in lasting ones.

MA, Counseling Psychology LMHC — Washington State LPCC — California Imago Relationship Therapy Clinical Hypnotherapy
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Nicholas Tucker, Executive Coach

Nicholas Tucker
Executive Coach

Nicholas Tucker
Executive Coach

Nicholas is an executive coach and the developmental anchor of the Helios practice. He works with leaders, founders, and high-performing individuals on the internal dimensions of performance — the beliefs, patterns, and relational dynamics that shape what's possible professionally and personally.

His coaching practice draws on three methodologies. Co-Active coaching, developed at the Co-Active Training Institute, provides his foundational framework — a whole-person approach grounded in the belief that clients are naturally creative, resourceful, and whole. Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC), developed by CRR Global, informs his team and organizational work — treating the relationship system itself as the unit of change. And Positive Intelligence (PQ), developed by Shirzad Chamine, gives him tools to help clients build mental fitness and reduce the internal sabotage that limits performance regardless of external advantage.

Nicholas works with individual executives navigating leadership transitions, founders building teams and culture, and professionals working on the alignment between how they're living and who they actually are. He also works with leadership teams experiencing friction, disengagement, or the growing pains of rapid organizational change.

He brings a particular sensitivity to the intersection of high achievement and inner life — to the questions that arise when the scorecard says success and something else says otherwise.

Co-Active Training Institute (CTI) ORSC — CRR Global Positive Intelligence (PQ) Individual & Team Coaching
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Stronger Together Than Apart

Francesca and Nicholas founded Helios together because they believe the most significant human challenges live at the intersection of clinical healing and developmental growth.

They share a philosophical framework — the Helios Method — and work in deliberate coordination for clients engaged with both practices. This does not mean one practitioner's work bleeds into the other's scope. It means they communicate, align direction, and create the conditions for compounding change: clinical healing and developmental growth happening simultaneously, each reinforcing the other.

The Helios Assessment they built together reflects the same principle: a whole-person reflection before any service commitment, so that support is matched to what's actually going on — not just what's most legible or most familiar.

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Ready to See Where You Are?

Start with the free Helios Assessment — a 10-minute reflection across 8 life areas. Or book a free consultation directly.

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