Helena holds an MA in Public History and Cultural Heritage (Hons.) from the University of Limerick (2025). Her academic and specialist formation also includes undergraduate studies from a BA in Law and History at the Complutense University of Madrid; a Diploma in Jungian Psychology and Certificate in Shadow Work from Jung Centre Dublin; archetypal-psychology training with Dr Laurence Hillman; a Diploma in the History of Magic, Witchcraft and the Occult from Imperial College London (2022–23); and a Certificate Course in the Medieval Icelandic Sagas at the University of Iceland, with study encompassing Old Norse textual traditions, Norse mythology, archaeology, landscape, the supernatural and the cultural world in which practices such as seiðr emerged.

She is a lecturer and tutor at the College of Psychic Studies, London — one of the world's oldest centres for the study of esoteric, spiritual and psychical traditions, established in 1884 — where she first trained for more than a decade across spirituality and esoteric subjects. Her studies and practice there included mediumship and trance mediumship, psychometry, inspirational and automatic writing, energy work, esoteric approaches to Freemasonry, and healing and dowsing traditions. Her mediumistic formation also includes additional training at the Arthur Findlay College, alongside further specialist development in mediumship and related psychical disciplines. She later returned to the College of Psychic Studies as a lecturer, teaching across Templar history, the Sacred Feminine, Western esotericism, Gnosticism, alchemy, mythology and Jungian and depth perspectives.

Her research has had measurable real-world impact: Helena identified and reported previously unrecorded archaeology at Kilbarry, Co. Waterford — work arising from her MA research on Templar preceptories — which subsequently entered Ireland's National Monuments record. This exemplifies her commitment to translating archival and field research into durable public-heritage outcomes.

In 2025, Helena was awarded a Certificate of Recognition by OSMTH Ireland at the Waterford Templar Historical Day, recognising her Templar research, public-history and heritage interpretation, and her contribution to advancing understanding of Templar historiography. In 2026, she received the Meriti Crux — Cross of Merit — from the Sovereign Order of the Saint-Martin Templar Knights (OSTSM), awarded when she served as keynote speaker at the international Saint Martin conference, recognising her research and contributions to Templar history.

Helena lectures internationally, both in person and by live remote delivery, for universities, colleges, Jungian societies, heritage organisations, museums, historical societies, esoteric institutions, private learning communities and cultural organisations. She has worked in publishing since the early 2000s as an author, translator, editor and independent publisher, and has written, translated, edited or contributed to eighteen published books and works in English and Spanish across history, heritage, falconry, the paranormal and related fields, most recently contributing Chapter 19, “Templar Ireland,” to The Templar Agenda, authored by Kathleen Anne Ball, PhD. The chapter distils Helena's Templar research in Ireland, begun in 2016 and developed through Loftus: The Hall of Dreams, public interviews and her later MA dissertation, and provides a concise overview of her larger book-in-progress, Templar Ireland. Her publishing record includes a number of works on falconry written by Helena herself, as well as her specialist 2009 Spanish-to-English translation and editing of Falconry: Celebrating a Living Heritage, a work on falconry's history and cultural heritage associated with the wider international campaign that culminated in its UNESCO inscription as Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2010. Her books also include Loftus: The Hall of Dreams — an Amazon bestseller — and her wider publishing work encompasses translation, editing, collaborative volumes and contributions to other authors' works. Helena is currently working on a number of forthcoming books of her own, with new titles due for release shortly. She has also contributed to press, broadcast and documentary productions across Ireland, Europe and internationally.

The Waterford Templar Historical Day, which Helena launched on 11 October 2025 from her MA research, is a paradigmatic example of her public-history practice: scholarship translated into heritage interpretation, remembrance, interfaith engagement, historical re-enactment and community education.

Raised in an international and multilingual environment, Helena is fully trilingual in Spanish, English and Italian; has a high command of French; very good reading and comprehension of Portuguese; good comprehension of Catalan; intermediate German; and foundational to lower-intermediate Swedish, with earlier study towards the Swedex business-language certificate. For historical research, Helena works with Latin and uses Old Norse for source reading and research. Her medieval-source work also involves the reading and interpretation of medieval Castilian, Catalan, French, Occitan and Galician-Portuguese, together with medieval Italian vernacular material where relevant. This multilingual range supports an approach that returns whenever possible to primary sources in their original linguistic and cultural contexts.

Helena's historical and comparative interests extend beyond medieval Europe to Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Sumerian history and religion, Norse history and saga traditions, magic and ritual, the Sacred Feminine and feminine mysteries, initiation rites, ancestral and shamanic traditions, and the ways spiritual and ritual practices are carried through culture, story, landscape and material evidence. Within the Norse field, her interests include seiðr, divination, ritual and the relationship between textual, archaeological and mythological evidence.

Applied AI and digital systems are now a distinct strand of Helena's interdisciplinary practice. Working as an applied AI systems designer and developer, she independently conceives and builds websites, apps, AI agents and end-to-end digital environments for research, heritage, knowledge, education, psychology and wellbeing. Her work brings archival sources, material culture, mapping and interpretation into human-centred systems designed to support — rather than replace — responsible human judgement. Public-facing examples include the Templar Symbolism Companion, Marks of Ireland, the Dark Mother Institute and Helena Wellness. Across this work, a central concern is human agency: how supportive AI can scaffold research, reflection, executive function and self-management while preserving autonomy, boundaries and the conditions for meaningful human choice.

Helena also works with the spoken word and is available for voice and narration commissions, including documentary narration, audiobooks, podcasts, guided meditations and other historical, cultural, educational and contemplative audio projects. Her background as a lecturer, writer and multilingual communicator informs a voice practice centred on clarity, atmosphere, storytelling and the intelligent interpretation of text.

Helena's work spans a distinctive interdisciplinary field in which rigorous historical method meets serious engagement with threshold knowledge — psychical research, esotericism, mythology and the Sacred Feminine — bringing these areas into productive conversation.

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