Louise WaterfallBACP

Louise Waterfall is a counsellor who blends client-centred listening with existential and somatic approaches. She focuses on understanding your experience and helping you make choices that feel right. Louise has 12 years of practice and works with pregnancy and childbirth concerns among a wide range of life issues.

Her sessions aim to create space for honest talking and practical reflection. She pays attention to how the body stores stress and uses gentle somatic exercises to bring awareness to physical sensations. This can help when anxiety, grief or trauma feel stuck in the body.

Louise draws on client-centred principles to follow what matters most to each person. She also uses existential ideas to help people explore meaning, responsibility and the choices available to them. Together these approaches support clearer decision making during big life changes.

Her work covers common struggles such as stress, anxiety, depression and relationship difficulties. She also supports people facing separation, grief, caregiving strain, eating and body image concerns, and issues linked to attachment and abandonment.

Sessions include guided imagination, gesture and somatic awareness alongside open talking. Louise aims to help people develop more self-empathy and find manageable steps forward. If you are unsure about whether this approach fits your needs, a short initial conversation can clarify how she works and what to expect.

How Louise's approaches translate to online therapy

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening closely and following what matters to each person. In practice this means sessions prioritise your concerns, with the therapist reflecting your feelings and helping you find your own answers. Existential Therapy helps people look at meaning, choice and responsibility in life. It can be useful for those facing big transitions, questions about roles or the impact of pregnancy and childbirth on identity. Somatic Therapy pays attention to physical sensations and how the body responds to stress. Techniques such as breath awareness, gentle movement or guided imagery can help when emotions feel stuck in the body.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Louise will aim to understand your goals and try different ways of working until you both find what helps. This is a collaborative process where your feedback guides the pace and focus of sessions.

The biography does not specify which session formats are offered, so please confirm available options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also lets people continue sessions across different locations, which can help maintain continuity during life changes.