About me
Hi I am Louisa, I am a fully qualified BACP registered counsellor, coach & trauma informed recovery therapist, who works with women so they can free themselves from the emotional challenges they are facing and live the happy, fulfilling, thriving life they deserve.
I focus on building confidence, clarity, self esteem, self worth, self love and emotional regulation and alleviating confusion, anxiety, fear, panic, depression, helplessness, PTSD, self doubt, stress, burnout, overwhelm, chronic pain, chronic fatigue, people pleasing, codependency, emotional over eating and insomnia.
I have a specialist interest, but am not limited to working with women dealing with relationship and family issues. I am extensively trained in working with women looking to heal from traumatic relationship experiences , especially where they have experienced emotional or psychological abuse. I am also a specialist narcissistic abuse recovery coach
I can offer you a safe, confidential, non judgemental space to talk through the emotional challenges you are experiencing, so you can feel safe, believed, valued, heard, and understood. I will help you to gain a better understanding of what you are experiencing and why. Together we can work on healing anything that needs healing and work on any fears, worries, concerns and negative beliefs or unhelpful patterns of behaviour you want to change so you can free yourself from them.
I work with an integrative, solution focused approach, supporting you to not only work through and manage your situation but also to help you find the root cause of why you are experiencing it in the first place, so you can achieve permanent lasting beneficial change.
You have the power inside you to create the life you want for yourself. Sometimes you just need a safe, non judgemental hand along side you, guiding, and supporting you, as you find your way.
We can't change the past and what we have experienced, or how other people choose to treat us, but we can work on the impact it has on us, so we can heal, rise emotionally stronger and then move forward with our life feeling happier and freer.
I provide a wealth of coaching strategies and techniques to help facilitate the counselling work, so you have some valuable resources to help support and empower yourself. These are especially effective for those who are struggling with feeling overwhelmed, burnt out or are constantly highly anxious, or having panic attacks and need some practical resources to start regulating their nervous system again.
For those who have good self awareness, and are now looking to do deeper inner work. I offer Rapid Transformational Therapy which is therapy working with the subconscious mind.
I offer a free no obligation 20 minute initial consultation for new clients. It gives you the opportunity to meet with me and ask any questions you may have, so you can then make an informed decision on whether I would feel right for you. Please email me or send me a text if you would like to make contact and I will get back to you within 48 hours.
Testimonials
"I have been to visit other therapists in the past and had lost hope a little bit that, no one would be able to help me. Louisa has a warm energy that made me feel at ease very quickly. She explains why certain things happen or feel the way they do and gives strategies and tasks for you to do, which is something that helped me massively. I will be forever grateful to Louisa for helping me".
"Thank you so much for all your help and support. I was in a real mess when we first met and feel I am in a better place now".
"I would like to say a massive thank you for the help you have given me. its been really impactful to help me move forward. I am incredibly grateful".
" Louisa is such a warm, understanding and wise person, who made me feel completely safe and comfortable to explore my problems. She gave me strategies and techniques to help me address these problems, and these were effective from the beginning. She helped me to explore things on a deeper level, always with sensitivity and kindness and this has helped me enormously. Louisa is a wonderful counsellor/therapist, who I would without doubt highly recommend to others".
"I have found the sessions I have done with you so helpful and game changing really. Everything you explained and taught me has made so much sense and I have felt so fortunate to have such a wise and kind counsellor".
Training, qualifications & experience
The counselling, psychotherapy, therapeutic techniques and coaching strategies I offer have been grown over years of my training in the industry. I have researched extensively the different approaches out there, and up levelled my skills so I can provide my clients with a range of strong, effective therapy.
Experience
Prior to setting up my private practice I have provided counselling at ARC Counselling Services, a BACP accredited counselling service, where I worked with adults looking to alleviate anxiety and depression, resolve their relationship issues, recover from emotional abuse, and build their self esteem, inner confidence, self worth and self love.
I have provided counselling to female survivors of rape and sexual assault at Trust House Reading, focusing on supporting them to process their trauma, alleviate their fear and anxiety, rebuild their confidence, trust, self esteem and self worth and rebuild feelings of safety back into their body.
I have worked on the helpline at RASASC offering crisis care, emotional support and signposting.
I currently volunteer at my local community centre, where I provide light informal counselling, emotional support, and coaching strategies to those in need.
Qualifications
- Therapeutic Counselling Level 4 CPCAB Diploma (Adults).
- NCFE Level 3 Award Counselling Skills & Theory
- Rapid Transformational Therapy Practioner
- Certified Hypnotherapist
- Certified Narcissistic Trauma Informed Recovery Coach
- Brainspotting Level 1
ADDITIONAL SKILLS
- FLASH EMDR
- CBT
- NLP
- Solution Focused
- Trauma Informed Recovery
- Positive Psychology
- IFS Informed
- Polyvagal Informed
- Somatic Body Work Informed
Member organisations
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred). Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision. Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training. All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£60.00 per session
Free initial telephone or online session
When I work
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Further information
I have some daytime and evening slots available to work either in person or via zoom. Please call, text or email and I will aim to get back to you as soon as I can.
