About Louisa
Louisa Addo-Williams uses a blend of talking therapies to help people untangle difficult feelings and make practical changes. She brings 13 years of experience to sessions and speaks English and Twi. Louisa is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and works with people facing a wide range of concerns.
She helps people manage stress and anxiety, cope with grief and depression, and deal with trauma and abuse.
How Louisa works
Louisa also supports those facing relationship and intimacy-related issues, challenges around eating or sleeping, and people living with bipolar or ADHD who need coping strategies. Career worries, low self-esteem, anger, and compassion fatigue are also common topics in her practice. Her approach is person-centred and collaborative.
Sessions focus on what matters to the individual and on small steps that can be practised between meetings. Louisa draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-based ideas, existential thinking, psychodynamic perspectives and solution-focused tools as needed to suit each person. She offers both short-term work for clear goals and longer-term support for deeper change.
Sessions can include practical exercises, reflective discussion and strategies to help with everyday life. People can expect a calm, attentive atmosphere where their concerns are taken seriously. Louisa sees clients across the United Kingdom and also takes international clients.
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, and scheduling is arranged through a short matching process that helps pair people to the right time and format.
Louisa lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Louisa works with
The areas below are the ones Louisa selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| Languages | English, Twi |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Using therapy approaches online to make change
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and to act in ways that match their values. It is useful when someone is struggling with anxiety, depression or life transitions and wants clear strategies to keep living the life they want.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and emotional responses. It helps people understand why they relate to others in certain ways and supports shifts in connection and trust in close relationships.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, past experiences and preferences and then jointly decide which methods to try. This is a collaborative process and can change over time as needs evolve.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give practical options for different situations. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual contact helps. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or when a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit brief updates, ongoing coaching-style support or times when typing feels easier than speaking.
These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving and travel, and allow people to try different formats to see what works best for them.
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