Meet Helen Wheeler

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Mrs. Helen Wheeler

Mission Statement: 
Helping improve life for you, your family, and your loved ones.

Goals: 
Helping individuals move through life's difficulties: separation, divorce, step-family situations, educational problems, and mental health challenges. 


EDUCATION
  • Masters of Education (with Distinction) in Clinical Counseling from The Citadel

TRAINING AND SKILLS
  • Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor (LPC/S) in South Carolina
  • National Certified Counselor (NCC)
  • Nationally Certified as a Parent Coordinator (NCPC) by Professional Academy of Custody Evaluators (PACE)
  • Trained in Collaborative Family Law as a Child Specialist and Divorce Coach
  • Certified as Public School teacher in SC
  • Recognized as a Clinical Diplomate by the American Mental Health Counselors Association in Family and Couples Counseling
  • Qualified as an expert witness in the impact on children of high conflict separation, divorce, custody issues, test interpretation, child development, parenting education and co-parent counseling in conflicted divorce, separation, parental alienation, and custody litigation in the 1st, 8th, 9th, and 14th Judicial Circuits in South Carolina.
  • Candidate for National Board of Forensic Evaluators as a Custody Evaluator

COUNSELING
Extensive public school experience including: 
  • Sixteen years as a teacher of gifted and talented students in grades 1-9. Four years as the school's public relations representative which included writing for local newspapers and contacting local medial outlets.
  • Two years as school district administrator: Gifted and Talented Testing and Identification Coordinator
  • Four years as guidance counselor (Special duties included Counselor Resource for Gifted and Talented students and School Achievement Tteam Coordinator and Chair of School's Discipline Committee)

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
  • American Psychological Association
  • Association of Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Association of Mental Health Counselors of America
  • Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (An international interdisciplinary organization specializing in working of behalf of children in Family Court Proceedings)
  • SC Certified Mental Health Counselors, (SCMHCA) Executive Board.  
  • Chi Sigma Iota Counseling Honor Society, 
  • Named as a "Hero: Year of the Child, 2001" by Governor Jim Hodges; Recognized for creating "Most Innovative Counseling Program" by Tri-County Counseling Association, 2003. Facilitator for single parent family track of AMFM. Educational Specialist, Successful Stepfamilies.