About me
Hello, I’m Louise, a licensed psychotherapist specialising in trauma, sexual abuse, FGM, dissociative disorders and attachment disorders
If you’re here, you may be feeling overwhelmed by past experiences, struggling to make sense of how trauma has affected your life and relationships, or perhaps you’re unsure of how to begin healing.
I’m here to provide a caring, creative, and supportive space where you can talk about your feelings, work through your past, and begin to create a healthier, more fulfilling future.
I work from a creative, psychodynamic perspective, which focuses on how past experiences, particularly those from early childhood, play a significant role in shaping our thoughts, behaviours, and emotional patterns. By exploring unconscious processes, past traumas, and deep-rooted patterns, we can gain insight into how they influence your present-day experiences.
I like to encourage art-making in sessions as a tool for self-expression and emotional exploration, although this may not suit all individuals and is not essential.
Whether you’re seeking short-term support or longer-term healing, we can work together at a pace that feels right for you, building a sense of safety, restoring your sense of self-worth, and developing healthier coping strategies.
Training, qualifications & experience
Experience
I currently work with an NHS clinic for female genital mutilation patients. I have also worked across various mental health settings, including a specialist trauma and abuse charity, Bath Mind, drug and alcohol rehabilitation, homelessness services and domestic abuse safehouses.
Qualifications
- MA Art Psychotherapy (2016-2019)
- Psychology BSc (Hons) 2019- 2022
Relevant Training
- Safeguarding levels 1-3 (2024)
- First Aid (2024)
- Working in Abuse with Refugee Women and Girls
- Intimacy after Sexual Abuse
- Transactional Analysis- A Relational Perspective
- Trauma and the Body: Dissociation and Somatisation
- IFS Therapy Skills for Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
- The Role of Shame in Sexual Abuse in Women
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
The HCPC are an independent, UK-wide health regulator. They set standards of professional training, performance and conduct for 16 professions.
They keep a register of health professionals who meet their standards, and they take action if registered health professionals fall below those standards. They were created by a piece of legislation called the Health Professions Order 2001.
Registration means that a health professional meets national standards for their professional training, performance and conduct.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£50.00 - £60.00
Additional information
Online sessions - £50
In-person sessions - £60
Further information
Whether you’d like to schedule a free consultation or learn more about how therapy can help you, don’t hesitate to reach out.
