About Louise
Louise Shepherd combines seven years of counselling practice with a grounded, practical style. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and life changes. Louise uses straightforward language and aims to make sessions feel manageable and down-to-earth.
Her work often centres on emotional overwhelm, depression, parenting strain, relationship difficulties and career stress. She also supports people dealing with trauma and abuse, intimacy-related worries, anger and compassion fatigue.
How Louise works
Additional concerns she helps with include communication problems, attachment matters, body image and separation after divorce. Louise blends several therapeutic approaches to suit each person. Client-Centred Therapy gives space for people to be heard without judgment.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy helps spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try new behaviours. Mindfulness techniques and Motivational Interviewing often appear in sessions to build calm and momentum. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented.
Louise aims to help people set realistic steps and practise small changes between meetings. She will talk through coping skills, explore roots of patterns and work with what feels achievable right now. Louise holds BACP accreditation, which is shown as BACP in her credentials.
She works with people across a wide range of life and emotional challenges, and she offers sessions in English from the United Kingdom.
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
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Louise’s approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding. The counsellor creates space for you to talk and be heard, which helps with low self-esteem, relationship concerns and emotional overwhelm. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behaviour and encourages practical steps to test new ways of coping; this is useful for anxiety, depression and stress. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple exercises to calm the body and steady attention, which can reduce reactivity and support managing strong feelings.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works together with each person to decide which methods feel most helpful. Conversations in early sessions clarify goals, preferences and the pace that feels manageable, and the plan can change as progress is made.
Online sessions using video calls, phone, live chat or text messaging make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls let people see visual cues and keep a closer conversational flow. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can suit check-ins or times when being on camera is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging give flexible ways to reflect between sessions and can be used for shorter check-ins or ongoing support. These options aim to make therapy more accessible and adaptable to everyday routines.
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