About Louise
Louise Ralph is a counsellor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction and relationship difficulties. She works with grief, depression, trauma and identity concerns, including LGBT issues. Her approach is practical and down-to-earth, aimed at helping people take small steps forward when life feels hard.
She trained to Diploma Level 4 and holds BACP registration. Louise has eight years' experience and runs a independent practice near London. She also provides telephone counselling for employee assistance programmes and continues to support hospice bereavement work.
Background and approach
In sessions she focuses on building a trusting relationship first. That foundation makes it easier to talk about difficult feelings and patterns. She combines person-centred ideas with psychodynamic thinking to notice how past experience affects current life.
Louise draws on attachment-based approaches to help people understand relationship patterns. She uses cognitive behavioural techniques to spot and change unhelpful thoughts. Elements of emotion-focused and dialectical approaches help clients manage strong feelings and improve emotional connection.
She offers weekday, evening and Saturday daytime appointments and works with clients by telephone and video. International clients can be seen; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and arrange sessions via the Start Therapy button.
What Louise works with
Everything Louise lists, in their own terms. LGBT is the reason Louise is listed here; the rest shows what else Louise works with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Depression
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Louise lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
Online approaches that suit busy lives
Louise uses attachment-based ideas to help people recognise how early relationships shape current patterns. This approach can be useful when repeating relationship issues or feeling insecure in close connections.She also works in a client-centred way, which means sessions focus on the person's experience and pace. This helps when someone needs space to be heard and to make decisions about change.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Louise will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then suggest which methods to try. That collaborative decision means the plan can change as progress happens.
Her biography states she offers telephone and video sessions. Please confirm the exact session options and times before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow evening or Saturday appointments. Telephone calls can be quicker check-ins and video sessions allow face-to-face interaction when needed.
Questions people ask about Louise
What kinds of problems does she help with?
She supports people with stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, depression and trauma, among other concerns. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans issues are included in her listed areas.
How would you describe her therapy style?
The style is warm and person-centred, emphasising a strong therapeutic relationship. Practical steps and reflective work are balanced to suit each person.
What experience does she bring to sessions?
She has eight years' experience and has worked in independent practice plus employee assistance telephone counselling. She began counselling with bereavement volunteering at a hospice.
Where is she based and what credential does she hold?
She is based near London in the United Kingdom and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, shown as BACP.
Can people who speak other languages access her service?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She offers telephone and video sessions as described in her biography; please confirm current session options before booking.
How are sessions paid for and what do they cost?
Sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time; the exact cost varies with location and therapist availability.
How do I start working with her?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to her availability.
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