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Biography:

Having worked for 20 years in an education setting with vulnerable children and families, I retrained as a counsellor and now work with a third sector organisation aiming to bring affordable therapy into the community.

Specialties:

Dissociative Identity Disorder, Trauma

herapy can be likened to peeling away onion layers to reach the things that are affecting people negatively.

Through CRM the person is supported to peel these layers away and are so helped to understand the way they react in situations.

In comparing CRM with therapies like cognitive therapy, the challenge is that people can be asked to talk about their fears in great detail.   Some people may have to repeat their story over and over so that they can build resilience with dealing with the fear.   For many people this is too much to deal with.

With me, there’s no need to talk about what happened. A person will be given skills to give them strength to face the painful emotions they’ve kept inside. Encouragement will be given for the person to focus on the physical sensations arising in their bodies and deal with feelings such as chest-crushing sadness, a hot flash of anger, stomach cramps, palpitations or feeling like one’s heart is frozen in ice. With my support you can face such feelings fully, if only for a short time, and finally let go of your buried anger, terror or shame.

Since 2003 I have been counselling in diverse settings such as hospice care, schools, colleges, charities working with abuse and trauma, and in the Mental Health Services of the NHS and the British Army, as well as private practice.

I believe that when life confronts us with emotional pain and difficulties it is important that we don’t have to carry these burdens or struggle on our own.

A trusting relationship with the therapist or counsellor is key to receiving effective help. I therefore seek to provide a safe, compassionate, non-judgmental and supportive space in which hope can grow and we can explore positive ways forward.

It can be daunting to consider reaching out for help, especially when we have managed on our own for – what seems like – forever. Perhaps we think, or are told, that we should be able sort ourselves out, but that’s a lot easier said than done.

The Way I Work

As an Integrative Psychotherapist and Counsellor I draw from a range of approaches, tailoring them to suit your individual needs. You set the pace and direction as we work collaboratively towards your goals.

I am able to work both long and short term and with a more solution-focused outlook.

For me CRM (The Comprehensive Resource Model) is a particularly effective and safe method for working with trauma, both for more recent one-off events as well as long-term, historical relational trauma sometimes experienced in childhood or long-term relationships that may have occurred in an almost un-noticed, accumulative manner, often over many years, leaving behind invisible injuries to self-worth, anxiety disorders and sometimes addictions.

In Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling we seek to connect again with those lost parts of ourselves so that once more our life energy can flow unhindered and we can live a richer fuller life as whole people.

‘Trauma can be any stressful life event where we feel helpless or overwhelmed’

Louise is passionate about supporting people in their recovery from traumatic events. She wholeheartedly believes that healing from trauma is possible.

Louise, a registered nurse and accredited psychotherapist, has spent the majority of her career working in the NHS. Having spent many years as a nurse in ICU, her interest in supporting people following their survival of a critical illness, led her to re-train as a counsellor/psychotherapist. Since then, Louise has worked closely with NHS staff, patients and family members developing her speciality in trauma therapy as well as undertaking further training in trauma processing and self-regulation techniques. She has also done research in this field.

CRM Trainings – Basic, DID & Advanced CRM with Core Self.