About Louise
Louise Waterfall offers a warm, person-centred approach to therapy. She brings 12 years of experience and works from a BACP registration. Louise aims to make sessions calm and practical so people can feel understood and take steps forward.
Her work centres on helping people cope with stress, anxiety and depression. She also supports those facing grief, trauma and addiction concerns. Relationship issues, intimacy worries and parenting strains are included among her focus areas.
How Louise works
Louise uses Client-Centred Therapy to create a respectful space where people set the pace. She draws on Existential Therapy to help clients explore meaning, choices and personal values. Somatic Therapy techniques are used too, including simple body awareness, breathing and grounded exercises.
Typical sessions may include talking, guided breathing, gentle body-focused noticing and visualisation. These practical steps are chosen to suit each person's needs and aims. The therapist helps people identify small changes that make daily life feel more manageable.
Louise has particular experience with abandonment and attachment issues, codependency, dissociation and body image concerns. She also supports people dealing with caregiver stress, end-of-life and hospice-related challenges. Her approach is steady, compassionate and focused on what helps in day-to-day life.
Louise lists 3 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
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches that combine talking and body work online
Louise blends Client-Centred Therapy and Somatic Therapy to support people in online sessions. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening, empathy and the client's own pace, which helps when addressing anxiety, depression and relationship concerns. Somatic Therapy uses body awareness, breathing and simple grounding practices to help people notice and ease physical tension linked to stress or trauma.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Louise will talk with clients about their needs, goals and what feels most helpful, then choose practices together. That collaborative process means the therapy adapts over time as progress and comfort change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face interaction and guided breathing or movement. Phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging suit shorter check-ins, reflective writing and flexible scheduling. These options give practical flexibility for fitting therapy into busy lives while still using the approaches described above.
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