Louise Allen (Accredited Registrant NCS)

I offer collaborative counselling; working alongside you at your pace to explore your feelings, thoughts, decisions, tensions, hopes, dreams and relationships. We can work indoors, outdoors, on the phone and with creative techniques to find the most helpful way for you to unpack and explore your experiences and concerns.

I believe that we are all doing the best we can with what we understand and have available - the more we understand about ourselves, the more choice we can have over our life. The counselling process provides a safe space where I accompany you as a non-judgemental and compassionate “fellow traveller”, helping enable you to understand how you feel, identify how your thoughts and beliefs have come to be, where you would like to be in life and how you might get there.

I am particularly interested in how nature can be a source of inspiration to understand our own life cycles and processes. I work in a way where we consider the wider world around us (people and society, other living beings and our physical environment) as being important in understanding our experience of life.