- Telephone sessions
- Video sessions
- BACP registration
About Louise
Louise Ralph is a counsellor and psychotherapist registered with the BACP with eight years' experience. She works with adults on issues such as stress, anxiety, addiction, grief and relationship concerns, and has a particular focus on young adult challenges like career uncertainty and coping with life changes.
Louise offers telephone and video sessions and runs a private practice based just outside London. She also provides telephone counselling for employee assistance programmes and supports hospice bereavement work, drawing on those experiences when working with loss and long-term illness.
Her way of working is integrative, combining psychodynamic and person-centred ideas. In practice that means sessions look at past patterns and present feelings, while also paying attention to what the client wants from therapy now. She aims to build a trusting relationship first, as that makes it easier to talk about difficult memories and current problems.
Clients can expect practical conversations alongside reflective work. Therapy sessions cover emotional regulation, coping strategies for anxiety and low mood, and relationship or intimacy issues. She also supports people dealing with addiction, sleep or eating problems, ADHD-related difficulties, and career-related stress.
Louise is experienced with a wide range of concerns including trauma, attachment issues and bereavement. She works with LGBT clients and people managing caregiver stress or chronic illness. Sessions are offered in English and she sees international clients as well.
To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule a first session. Costs vary with location and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
Therapeutic approaches and how online sessions work
Louise combines attachment-based ideas with person-centred work to help clients understand relationship patterns and current emotional needs. Attachment-based approaches focus on how early relationships shape current behaviour and help with difficulties in trust, intimacy and repeated relationship problems.She also uses cognitive behavioural therapy techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. CBT offers practical strategies for anxiety, low mood, sleep issues and managing daily stressors, often with homework tasks to try between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Louise will discuss goals and preferences and together with the client decide which methods to use. That collaboration helps shape a plan that fits what someone wants to change and how they prefer to work in therapy.
The biography states she offers telephone and video sessions, so check the current session options before booking to confirm days and times. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into study, work or caring commitments, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. Practical matters such as evening or Saturday daytime appointments can help people in early adulthood manage therapy around jobs or study.
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Experience
8+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does she work with?
She works with stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, and other concerns including ADHD and career stress.
What is her general approach in sessions?
She uses an integrative approach blending psychodynamic and person-centred methods to look at past patterns and present goals in a practical way.
How much experience does she have?
She has eight years of practice as a counsellor and psychotherapist and has worked with hospice bereavement services and employee assistance programmes.
Where is she based and what are her credentials?
She is based just outside London in the United Kingdom and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
Can she work with people who live outside the UK?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
Her biography specifies telephone and video sessions; confirm current session options before booking.
How much do sessions cost?
Costs vary with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I get started with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
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