About Louise
Louise West is an Accredited Social Worker with 25 years' experience supporting people through difficult life events. She offers calm, steady guidance and tailors sessions to each person's needs. Her background covers a wide range of emotional challenges.
Louise specialises in stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting concerns and low self-esteem. She also works with related issues such as attachment difficulties, blended family strains, body image and eating concerns, domestic violence, substance problems, and post-traumatic stress.
How Louise works
Her experience extends to perinatal matters including pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum depression. Her practice uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques with a trauma-informed and strength-based outlook. That means she pays attention to safety and trust, helps people identify their strengths, and moves at a pace that feels manageable.
Sessions are collaborative and focused on practical steps people can use between meetings. Louise aims to create a warm, respectful and non-judgemental space. She listens closely and helps people set realistic goals for change.
Many sessions involve learning coping strategies, improving relationships, and building resilience. Louise is based in Australia and conducts work in English. She supports people who need help navigating loss, overwhelming stress, the aftermath of abuse, parenting pressures, self-harm concerns, panic and other acute worries.
Her approach is steady, compassionate and practical.
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
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Isolation / loneliness
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | AASW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Australia |
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Online support options
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Louise draws on established, evidence-based techniques that aim to reduce distress and build coping skills. One common approach focuses on trauma-informed work that recognises the impact of past harm and helps people regain a sense of safety and control; this is useful for survivors of abuse, post-traumatic stress and complex grief. Another approach emphasises strengths and practical skill-building, helping people identify what already works for them and develop realistic strategies for stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and parenting challenges.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Louise will talk through options, listen to goals and preferences, and adapt methods over time so therapy matches what a person needs. The aim is collaboration rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls let people work face to face from a distance, phone sessions can fit into a busy day and use less data, live chat provides a shorter way to check in, and messaging lets someone reflect between sessions. These options help people maintain regular contact and fit support into everyday life.
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