About Luisa
Luisa Passalacqua uses a blend of attachment-focused and evidence-informed methods to help people manage stress, anxiety and life changes. She is identified by her BACP credential, and brings 12 years of clinical experience in the United Kingdom. Luisa aims to create a calm, open space where people can talk honestly about painful issues and practical problems.
She focuses on problems that often affect day-to-day life. These include family conflicts, trauma and abuse, sleeping difficulties, anger, addiction and workplace stress.
How Luisa works
She also supports people struggling with relationship and intimacy issues, grief, low self-esteem and mood conditions such as depression and bipolar disorder. Luisa draws on Client-Centred Therapy to follow each person’s lead and build a trusting working relationship. She uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to identify patterns that keep problems going and to try new ways of thinking and acting.
Where helpful, elements of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy are added to improve emotional regulation and connection. Sessions may include practical strategies for coping, short exercises to change unhelpful habits, and space to talk through painful memories. She also offers coaching-style support for career and life transitions.
Language options include English, French and Italian to help people communicate comfortably. Her practice accepts international clients and offers flexible session formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. To begin, people select the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire before scheduling sessions according to therapist availability.
Luisa lists 14 ways of working on the entry:
What Luisa works with
The areas below are the ones Luisa selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English, French, Italian |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Luisa’s approaches work online
Luisa combines attachment-informed work with client-centred and cognitive behavioural techniques to support people over video, phone or messaging. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and can help with relationship and intimacy difficulties by exploring underlying needs and responses. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on understanding each person’s experience without judgement, giving space for reflection and emotional processing. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy identifies unhelpful thoughts and behaviours and offers practical exercises to change them, which can be useful for anxiety, sleeping problems and mood issues.Finding the best approach is part of the process. She discusses goals and preferences together, then adapts methods to suit what the person needs. This collaborative way helps tailor sessions to real-life problems and keeps the work grounded and practical.
Online formats offer a range of practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help the work. Phone sessions are useful when lower bandwidth or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer typed reflections or want brief, on-the-go support. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, travel or busy family life while using the same therapeutic approaches as in-person care.
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