Louise Waterfall, BACP

Louise Waterfall offers a practical, reflective approach to therapy that centres the person in the room. She is a BACP counsellor with 12 years' experience helping people work through stress, anxiety, grief and relationship concerns. Her style aims to help people better understand themselves and move forward in small, steady steps.

Sessions focus on recognising what the client needs right now. Louise uses client-centred listening to follow each person's priorities. She also draws on existential ideas to help people find meaning when life feels uncertain, and somatic practices to reconnect the body and mind.

Her practice addresses a wide range of concerns, including trauma and abuse, eating and body-image issues, addiction, parenting strain and career challenges. She also supports people dealing with abandonment, attachment difficulties, dissociation and the emotional work of end-of-life situations.

In practical terms, Louise works with short-term goals as well as deeper, longer-standing patterns. She uses somatic awareness, gesture, visualisation and imagination in sessions to build self-empathy and notice bodily signals. This can help people name feelings, reduce overwhelm and decide on next steps.

People who prefer a reflective, embodied way of working may find her approach helpful. To begin, clients follow the usual site process to match with a therapist and schedule sessions according to availability.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Client-Centred Therapy places the person's experience at the heart of sessions. The therapist listens closely and follows what matters most to the client, helping them name feelings and priorities. Existential Therapy looks at meaning and choice when life feels confusing or empty, supporting people to consider values and direction. Somatic Therapy pays attention to bodily signals through breath, movement and awareness exercises to help reduce overwhelm and build self-empathy.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss your needs, goals and preferences and together decide which mix of client-centred listening, existential reflection and somatic practice feels most helpful. That planning is collaborative and can change as you progress.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life and to keep continuity when travel or relocation would be difficult. It can also allow shorter check-ins when needed, or work that focuses more on verbal reflection if bandwidth or surroundings make movement exercises harder. The biography does not list specific session formats, so please confirm current options before booking to ensure sessions fit your routine.