Louise Taylor

Louise Taylor is a counsellor who supports people dealing with relationship strain, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem and big life changes. She works in a warm, creative way and helps people find what makes sense for them. Louise uses talking, movement, drawing or writing when words feel hard. Her registration with the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS) is noted as NCPS. Louise keeps sessions practical and down to earth. She often combines person-centred listening with straightforward cognitive techniques and emotionally focussed work. When trauma or upsetting memories are part of the picture she applies trauma-focused methods in ways that aim to keep people steady. She also draws on mindfulness and solution-focused approaches to help with mood, stress and coping. Her background includes theatre, dance and drama teaching, and working with adults on the autism spectrum. That creative and educational history feeds into how she works in sessions. Clients might be invited to try art, simple movement or storytelling to help access feelings and make sense of experience. Louise has five years' experience as a counsellor and holds a range of postgraduate qualifications, including an advanced counselling and psychotherapy certificate and two MSc degrees in psychology-related fields. She has completed additional training in areas such as trauma-focused work, expressive arts and mindfulness. She aims to make the therapy space non-judgemental and collaborative. Rather than giving answers, Louise supports people to find their own next steps. If talking feels difficult, she will suggest other ways to explore feelings and choices.

How Louise’s approaches translate to online work

Client-Centred Therapy places the person's experience at the heart of sessions. In practice this means the counsellor listens without judgement and follows the client’s lead to help them make sense of feelings and choices. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, focuses on noticing unhelpful thoughts and trying small, practical experiments to change mood and behaviour over time. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and express core emotions and work on stronger emotional connections within themselves. Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. Louise will work with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals and preferences rather than applying a single fixed model. This gives room to combine listening, practical exercises and creative tasks as needed. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week and to meet from different locations. It can also allow for shorter check-ins when time is tight, or sessions that use less bandwidth if video is difficult. Because the biography does not specify the exact session formats offered, confirm current session options before booking to ensure they suit your circumstances.