About Louise
Louise Claydon is a BACP counsellor with 11 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strains, low self-esteem and big life changes. Her manner is warm and non-judgemental, and she aims to make sessions feel straightforward and useful.
Louise draws on several therapeutic approaches to suit different needs. She uses client-centred listening to put the person's priorities first. She also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and build practical coping steps.
How Louise works
Attachment-focused ideas and psychodynamic thinking help when early relationships shape current patterns. Sessions are aimed at practical change as well as understanding feelings. People can expect a mix of talking, gently challenging thoughts, and simple exercises to try between sessions.
Coaching-style work is offered where a clear goal and action plan are helpful. Her background includes work in independent practice and in the NHS across a range of concerns. Louise has supported people with adoption and foster care issues, abandonment, body image, caregiver stress, blended family matters, cancer-related concerns, and separation or divorce.
She also helps with commitment and control issues, codependency and dependent personality matters. Louise delivers sessions in English and accepts international clients. Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging.
To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a session that suits your timing.
Louise lists 6 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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How these approaches work online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships influence current feelings and behaviours. Online sessions can help identify patterns that affect trust and closeness and work on new ways of relating. Client-Centred Therapy places the person at the centre of the work, with the counsellor offering empathic listening and reflection. This approach helps people find their own answers and make decisions at their own pace. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, focuses on how thoughts, feelings and actions link together and offers practical steps to change unhelpful patterns; it can be useful for anxiety, stress and low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The counsellor will talk about goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, then try methods that suit the individual. That collaborative planning means the work can shift over time as needs change.
Online therapy offers flexibility and practical benefits. Video calls let people maintain face-to-face contact without travel, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a quick break, and live chat or text-based messaging can suit shorter check-ins or those who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family or other commitments while keeping the focus on progress and outcomes.
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