About Louis
Louis Carruthers is a counsellor who works with adults on anxiety and related concerns. He offers a calm, non-judgemental space where people can talk about stress, relationships, eating concerns, mood, and trauma. He sees clients in person around London and online, and uses approaches that suit each person.
His background includes four years of practice and registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. He combines person-centred and psychodynamic ideas with cognitive and relational ways of working.
Background and approach
He also draws on embodied and somatic methods when trauma has a physical component. The aim is practical change, not labels. Sessions begin with listening to what matters most to the client.
Conversations focus on patterns, feelings, and relationships in everyday life. The counsellor may introduce gentle exercises to notice how the body holds stress or to try a different way of responding in tense moments. He has experience supporting people with depression, anxiety, eating and food-related issues, addiction concerns, intimacy problems, family and relationship difficulties, and career stress.
He also has experience in community safety, special educational needs contexts, and housing for vulnerable tenants, which informs his practical understanding of people’s lives. Louis aims to tailor each plan to the person in front of him. He keeps developing his skills with ongoing professional learning focused on relational trauma and intimacy.
His approach is straightforward and collaborative, helping clients work toward clearer goals and steadier day-to-day coping.
How practical approaches translate to online therapy
Louis uses a mix of person-centred work and relational approaches in online sessions. Person-centred work focuses on listening and reflecting so people feel heard and understood; it helps with anxiety, low mood and relationship worries. Relational approaches look at how patterns in past and current relationships affect feelings and behaviour, which can be useful for intimacy and attachment difficulties. He also draws on somatic or embodied techniques when trauma shows up in the body. Those are simple practices to notice breath, posture or bodily tension and to find small ways to ease physical stress that often links to anxiety and panic. Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The counsellor will discuss options with each client and adjust methods to match their goals, pace and preferences. This means trialling different ideas and keeping what helps most. Online formats offer practical benefits. Video calls let people work face to face from different locations. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick updates, reflection between sessions or people who prefer not to use video. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to maintain regular contact when meeting in person is difficult.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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