Louise Allen
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About me
I offer collaborative psychotherapeutic 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 therapeutic process provides a safe space where I accompany you as a “fellow traveller”. Bringing compassion and gentle questioning to help 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 and wisdom 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. Depending on how interested you are in working with nature and the other-than-human world, we can invite in the natural world around you as a "co-therapist" in our work together.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am a qualified integrative counsellor with a Level 4 Diploma accredited by the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS).
I am particularly interested in existential, ecotherapy / outdoor and walking therapy, along with other creative ways of working. I'm currently training in Wild Therapy, deepening my therapeutic practice to incorporate the other-than-human.
Additional training includes; Existential Courage, Relational Depth, Telephone Counselling, Working Creatively Online, Working Creatively with Transitions, Creative and Somatic Parts Work.
I have also completed Foundation Training as an End of Life Doula.
Member organisations
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In 2013 the NCS register was accredited by the Professional Standards Authority under the Accredited Voluntary Register Scheme. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
Accredited register membership
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Outdoor therapy / Walking therapy
Life transitions
End of life, death and dying
Therapies offered
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Fees
£55.00 per session
Free initial telephone session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
£55 per session. Sessions are 60 minutes
In person, including indoor, walking or outdoor therapy, and telephone counselling.
I also offer a small number of subsidised sessions (from £35 on a sliding scale up to £55) for student counsellors or those on low income.
I offer a free 30 minute initial call to discuss how we might work together.
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We discuss availability during our initial call (including frequency, location & time).
Further information
I am currently offering indoor, outdoor and telephone counselling.
