About Louise
Louise Banks is a counsellor with 17 years of experience who supports people facing stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem and depression. She also helps with coping through life changes and practical issues such as poor sleep. Louise writes plainly and aims to make the first step feel manageable for anyone who is worried about reaching out.
Louise works from the view that each person knows their story best. She helps people build on their own strengths while offering steady, practical support.
How Louise works
Sessions focus on small steps that can be tried between meetings to ease day-to-day pressure. Her approach combines Client-Centred Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, offering a mix of listening and structured work. In conversation she listens first, then helps set simple goals and experiments to test what works.
This can include looking at thoughts, routines and behaviours that keep problems going. Louise has supported people with a wide range of concerns beyond anxiety and depression. These include abandonment, caregiving stress, chronic illness and pain, end-of-life and hospice issues, relationship and communication problems, and obsessions or compulsions.
She also works with people dealing with cancer, ageing or life purpose questions. Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients. Louise aims for a calm, respectful space where practical changes are the priority.
She encourages people to try therapy at a pace that suits them and to focus on realistic, everyday improvements.
Louise lists 2 ways of working on the entry:
What Louise works with
The areas below are the ones Louise selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Louise uses talking therapies online
Client-Centred Therapy is a person-focused approach where the counsellor listens carefully and helps people find their own solutions. It suits issues where feeling heard and understood is the main need, such as grief, low self-worth or life decisions.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It uses simple exercises and experiments to change unhelpful patterns, which can help with anxiety, depression, obsessions and sleep problems.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Louise will discuss options with each person and agree on a plan together based on their needs, goals and preferences. This is a collaborative process and can be adjusted as therapy progresses.
Online therapy gives practical flexibility. Video calls replicate face-to-face conversations, phone sessions reduce bandwidth needs and can be easier for short check-ins, live chat suits people who prefer typing, and text messaging allows brief ongoing support between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit counselling around work, caregiving or health constraints while still working on clear, everyday changes.
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A practical next step
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