About Louise
Louise Brannan is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom. She holds BACP registration, and brings five years of experience supporting people facing a wide range of concerns. Her approach is conversational and practical, focused on helping clients find steps that feel doable in daily life.
She offers calm, respectful sessions that centre the individual's needs. In meetings she helps people talk through difficult feelings, notice unhelpful thinking patterns, and try short exercises or tools between sessions.
How Louise works
The goal is to help someone move towards clearer choices and better coping day to day. Louise tailors each plan to the person in front of her rather than applying a one-size-fits-all method. That can mean pacing work slowly through grief or trauma, or using more active techniques for stress, anxiety or sleep problems.
She aims to make recommendations that fit each person's routine and energy. Her practice covers a broad set of issues including depression, bipolar, addiction, anger, low self-esteem and compassion fatigue. She also supports people dealing with life transitions, career worries, relationship and intimacy-related concerns, and long-term health or caregiving strains.
Sessions are available online for people inside and outside the UK. Louise will work with clients to agree session goals and practical exercises, and she encourages realistic steps that build confidence over time.
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online counselling options
Louise uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional understanding. One common approach helps people identify and change unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviours, using short exercises and goal-setting to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms. Another approach centres on processing difficult experiences and feelings through guided conversation and paced coping strategies, which can be useful for trauma, grief and relationship distress.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Louise will discuss options with each person, trial methods, and adjust plans based on what suits the client's needs, goals and preferences. This collaborative stance helps ensure the chosen techniques feel manageable and relevant.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for this way of working. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues for deeper dialogue. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a session needs to fit a short break. Live chat and text-based messaging suit check-ins, brief updates or when someone prefers writing to talking. These formats increase flexibility and make it easier to keep momentum between sessions.
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