Louise Waterfall, BACP

Louise Waterfall is a counsellor with 12 years of practice who blends client-centred, existential and somatic ideas in short-term work. She focuses on helping people understand what they are feeling and find clearer ways to move forward. Her approach is practical and rooted in noticing bodily experience as well as thoughts and feelings.

Louise frames difficulties as opportunities for growth. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression and life transitions. Other areas she supports include relationship and intimacy-related concerns, addiction and eating issues, caregiver strain and compassion fatigue.

In session she encourages self-empathy through simple somatic awareness and guided imagery. She uses gesture, visualisation and imagination to help people reconnect with their senses and identify what they need next. This often makes confusing feelings easier to describe and work with.

Her work draws on client-centred values which place the person’s experience and choices at the centre of therapy. Existential themes are also explored, such as meaning, commitment and how to live with difficult uncertainties. These threads are woven together so practical next steps can be found.

Louise typically offers brief, focused courses of work that aim to map a growing point and then support development from there. Sessions are presented in a straightforward, compassionate way so people can try new ways of responding to old patterns. She accepts people from the United Kingdom and internationally and conducts work in English.

How therapeutic style meets online work

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what you say. It prioritises your experience and supports you to find your own answers in a calm, accepting way. Existential Therapy looks at meaning, responsibility and how people face life’s big questions. It helps when someone is wrestling with purpose, commitment or change. Somatic Therapy pays attention to bodily sensations and movement. It can help when emotions feel stuck in the body and when practical awareness of sensation makes feelings easier to name and manage.

Finding the right combination of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods suit their goals, needs and preferences. That means trying things gently and adjusting the plan as understanding grows.

The biography does not list specific online formats, so please confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week and to continue short-term focused work from different locations. It also allows for flexible check-ins, exercises you can practise between meetings, and use of imagery and guided body awareness that translate well to remote sessions. Registered or accredited professionals aim to tailor each session to what fits someone’s life and day-to-day routines.