Helene Omansky, LCSW

Helene Omansky, LCSW, is a senior social worker in the Mood Disorders Center at the Child Mind Institute.

She has worked with children, teens, and families navigating life transitions, stress, depression, medical illness, family dynamics, parenting, and other situational challenges. She has also worked with teens experiencing suicidal ideation and engaging in self-injurious behaviors. As an active member of the LGBTQ Affirmative Therapists Guild of Utah, she has particular expertise supporting members of the LGBTQ+ community.

While with the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Helene worked as the imbedded therapist in the pediatrician’s office, where she met with children and families confronting situational life stressors. During her time at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, she worked with diverse medical populations including neurology, neuro-oncology, neurosurgery, liver transplant, developmental delays, and autism, helping patients and families throughout their medical journeys. 

Helene is passionate about helping individuals discover easily accessible tools from within, to establish sustainable, healthy, and meaningful coping skills. She draws upon years of working with kids, teens, and families, borrowing from teachings in meditation and mindfulness in approaching stress with curiosity and kindness rather than dread and heaviness. Helene is formally trained in CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy) and utilizes this approach in her work.

• Therapist, Wasatch Family Therapy, Sandy, UT
• LCSW, Primary Children’s Hospital, Salt Lake City, UT
• LCSW/Therapist, Healthy Young Minds Program, Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Burlingame and Daly City, CA
• Clinical Social Worker III, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, San Francisco, CA

• Social Work Intern, Children’s Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL
• Social Work Intern, Evanston Hospital, Evanston, IL

• MA, Clinical Social Work, The University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration
• BA, Sociology, University of Colorado, Boulder