About Louise
Louise Smith is a counsellor who helps people facing stress and anxiety, relationship difficulty, grief, anger, depression and addictions. She also supports concerns about self-esteem, intimacy and coping with life changes. Louise works with people who want practical tools and clearer ways to manage day-to-day pressures.
She uses a straightforward, person-centred style that keeps the client’s experience at the heart of sessions. Louise listens first, then helps people identify strengths and small steps they can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Sessions are aimed at making problems feel more manageable rather than overwhelming. Her approach draws on client-centred principles and solution-focused techniques to build on what already works for each person. Mindfulness practices are used to help with emotional calm and awareness in stressful moments.
Together these methods help with things like communication problems, codependency, body image worries and feelings of emptiness. Louise trained to practise counselling and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She has three years of professional experience working with a range of issues from addiction and bipolar concerns to divorce and separation.
Sessions are conducted in English and reflect a practical, down-to-earth way of talking about problems. People who choose Louise often want a collaborative, non-judgemental space to work through difficult feelings and to develop simple strategies for coping. She aims to help people leave sessions with clearer options and realistic next steps.
How Louise uses her approaches online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person’s own strengths and priorities. The therapist listens closely and reflects what she hears so the client can make their own choices about change. This approach suits people who want a non-judgemental space to talk about stress, relationships and grief.Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing exercises to reduce reactivity. These practices help with anxiety, anger and overwhelming moments by bringing awareness to the present and slowing things down.
Solution-Focused Therapy looks for small, practical steps that produce change quickly. Sessions focus on goals and on what has worked before, which can be useful for issues like career stress, communication problems and coping with life transitions.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Louise will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences and together decide which methods to use. The plan can change as progress is made, and the client helps shape the journey.
Online formats offered include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is helpful when visual contact supports the conversation. Phone can fit into a short break or when internet bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging suit quick check-ins or people who prefer typed communication. These options aim to make therapy more flexible around work, family and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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