About Louise
Louise Ralph is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who helps people cope with stress and anxiety. She practices online and by phone, and offers sessions at times that suit working lives including evenings and Saturdays. She aims to create a calm, respectful space where clients can talk about what matters most to them.
With eight years of experience, Louise draws on an integrative approach. She blends client-centred listening with therapies that focus on emotions and relationships.
Background and approach
That mix is used to help with issues such as depression, grief, addiction and problems with self-esteem. She has a BACP accreditation, which is listed as her professional credential. Her background includes work in bereavement support at a hospice, and roles offering telephone counselling in employee assistance and health-hero programmes.
These roles inform her practical understanding of workplace stress and carer strain. In sessions she aims to build a trusting relationship first, then work together on patterns, thoughts and feelings that make life harder. Techniques may include exploring attachment issues, noticing thought patterns, and learning new ways to manage emotions.
The work is collaborative and paced to each person. Louise supports people dealing with a wide range of concerns including relationship and intimacy issues, parenting stress, eating and sleeping difficulties, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, trauma, and compassion fatigue. She also helps with career questions and coping with major life changes.
Approaches for online work and how they help
Attachment-based work looks at patterns in close relationships and how early bonds shape current reactions; it can help when people struggle with trust, abandonment worries or recurring relationship problems. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and understanding without judgement; it gives space to feel heard and to build confidence in decision making. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) teaches simple ways to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours, which can be useful for anxiety, low mood and sleep disruption.Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, and then try approaches that fit those needs. That makes therapy a joint process rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls make it possible to meet face to face without travel, phone sessions work well for shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging suit people who prefer writing between sessions. These options help fit therapy around work, caregiving and other commitments while keeping focus on the therapeutic tasks at hand.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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