Since completing her Postgraduate Diploma in Community Dance at Laban in 2001, Helen has worked extensively as a Community Dance Practitioner. Her roles have included Youth Dance Practitioner for South East National Dance Agency, Dance Development Officer for Crawley Borough Council and Education and Community Dance Practitioner for Laban.  In 2007, Helen joined Dance United, working at The Academy in Bradford with young offenders and women in prison.

She became Academy Director in 2008 and Artistic Director when the Academy evolved into Dance United Yorkshire in 2011, continuing to specialise in social inclusion. Helen has directed independent projects in South Africa, Namibia and Jamaica as well as facilitating for organisations across Yorkshire. She also continues to deliver behaviour management training, mentoring and artist development and works as an assessor for Trinity College London. Helen published her ‘Behaviour Management and Communication in Practice’ in 2012 and completed an MA in ‘Psychodynamic Approaches to Working with Adolescents’ in 2017.