About Louise
Louise Wood is a counsellor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression and low self-esteem. She works with adults dealing with trauma, addiction and major life changes. Louise frames clients as the experts on their own lives and aims to support them as they take steps towards change.
Louise trained to professional standards recognised by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She has seven years of experience working with people facing grief, relationship difficulties and anger.
How Louise works
Her practice also includes support for those coping with compassion fatigue, ADHD and issues tied to attachment and abandonment. In sessions she uses a client-centred approach, which puts a person’s concerns and goals at the centre of the work. She also draws on existential ideas to help people face life transitions and find meaning.
Elements of psychodynamic work are used to look at patterns that repeat in relationships and mood. Louise aims for practical conversations that help people notice what gets in the way of change. She helps people find small, doable steps and build on their strengths.
The overall tone is supportive and direct, with an emphasis on understanding how past experiences shape current feelings. Sessions are offered in English and take place remotely for people in the United Kingdom. Louise works with people affected by a wide range of concerns including addiction, domestic violence, bereavement, first responder issues, HIV/AIDS and difficulties connected to foster care and adoption.
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
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's 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 applies therapy online and what to expect
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on your goals and experiences and works by listening and reflecting back what matters to you. It is helpful for people wanting practical support to manage anxiety, low mood or stressful life changes.Existential Therapy looks at questions around meaning, choice and personal responsibility. It can be useful when a person is facing major life transitions, feelings of emptiness or uncertainty about the future.
Psychodynamic Therapy pays attention to patterns that repeat in relationships and mood, and how earlier experiences affect current feelings. This approach can help when people want to understand why certain reactions keep happening.
Finding the right approach is part of the work and Louise will collaborate with each person to choose what fits best. She discusses goals, preferences and what feels most useful, and adapts the mix of approaches as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video sessions are useful for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is handy for brief check-ins, and messaging suits people who prefer writing or need flexible check-ins. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving and busy schedules, while keeping the focus on practical progress and consistent support.
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