App
EMDR Apps
I founded EMDR Apps and developed EMDR Apps: Ground Clear Build, a self-guided app with thirteen programs based on EMDR principles, from sport and business to legal processes, sleep and fear.
emdrapps.com →Psychologist, psychotherapist, adjunct professor (legal and criminal psychology), EMDR Consultant
Helinä Häkkänen
Help with working through difficult experiences and moving forward in life.
As a psychotherapist, mental performance coach and EMDR expert, I help people who are weighed down by difficult experiences, relationship challenges, performance pressure, loss or other crises in life. The core method in my work is EMDR therapy, and I also develop new methods based on it, most recently the EMDR Apps mobile app. Alongside this, I continue my scientific research and write books about the human mind and behaviour.
Psychotherapy, mental performance coaching and EMDR therapy
Therapy practice
I am a psychologist and psychotherapy professional specialising in life crises, relationship conflicts, narcissism, grief, trauma, and legal and criminal matters. I provide individual psychotherapy for adults and young people, mental performance coaching for elite athletes, and clinical supervision. I work in my own company, Mielenjuuri, and at Terveystalo. I see clients remotely over a secure video connection and work fluently in Finnish, English and Swedish. The length of treatment ranges from a few EMDR intervention sessions to longer courses of therapy.
My work developing EMDR methods
Methods
Two EMDR-based trademarks
Witness Preparation® (WITNESSPR) is a psychological method for preparing witnesses, based on EMDR technique. BLS Online Help® is an EMDR-based protocol and group method delivered remotely.
See the methods →Keynote
EMDR and the legal process
In June 2026 I gave a keynote at the EMDR Europe Conference in Oslo. My subject was EMDR with clients who are involved in legal proceedings.
About the keynote →Research
Research on EMDR
I study how EMDR is used and how well it works, and I lead a research team at the University of Helsinki. I have published more than 60 peer-reviewed articles, including work on EMDR in the treatment of complicated grief.
About the research →Author
Books on the human mind and crime
I have written six non-fiction books, among them the bestseller Profiloija (The Profiler), and more than 60 peer-reviewed articles. My first crime novel will be published in early 2028.
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