Helen attended Wigan's Willpower Youth Theatre as a teenager and it was through this and their links with Intercity Casting that she got her first audition to play Abby in Hollyoaks.
[3] In April 2006, she appeared alongside Sara Crowe in the dark-comedy The Safari Party written by Tim Firth at Richmond Theatre[4] and toured the UK with the same play.
[5] In September 2007, it was announced that along with "West End" actor Graham Tudor, she would be teaching students at a new acting school in Liverpool.
Helen launched the associated agency Tread Management in 2012 and has seen students successfully gain work in the professional industry.
In 2017, following numerous past performances for Tread Productions including West End Story in Mexico and India, Helen enjoyed a successful return to the professional stage opposite her husband in the Broadway Musical The Last Five Years at the Epstein Theatre Liverpool in which they played a married couple whose relationship ended in turmoil.