Louise Taylor , NCPS

Louise Taylor is a psychotherapeutic counsellor registered with the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS). She supports people facing relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem and major life changes. Her manner is warm and creative and she aims to help people feel heard and understood.

She uses a flexible, person-centred approach and adapts methods to each person’s needs. Sessions may include talk therapy, practical coping strategies from cognitive behavioural work, mindfulness exercises and creative options such as drawing or expressive writing. These choices can help when words alone are hard to find.

Louise brings five years of counselling experience and a varied background in the arts and education. Before training as a counsellor she worked as an actor, dance and drama teacher, and lectured at a college supporting adults with learning disabilities and autism spectrum conditions. That experience informs her patient, accessible style.

Her additional training covers trauma-informed methods and expressive arts therapies, so she can offer ways of working beyond conversation when appropriate. She emphasises collaboration and focuses on what feels useful for each person in the room.

Outside work she practises martial arts, runs and does yoga, and takes part in Playback Theatre where audience stories are performed with improvised music. That creative outlook feeds into sessions and encourages practical, imaginative ways to process feelings.

Approaches you can use online

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and following the person's lead. It helps people feel accepted and gain clarity by having a non-judging listener who reflects their experience.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours connect. It uses practical exercises and small experiments to reduce anxiety, manage low mood and change unhelpful patterns.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy concentrates on emotions in relationships and attachment. It helps people identify their emotional responses and find new ways to connect or to cope with relational pain.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the person about what they want, try a few techniques and agree together which methods feel most helpful. This is a collaborative process and can change as goals shift.

Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and keep visual cues. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier during short breaks. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer writing, want frequent brief check-ins or find it easier not to be on camera. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy lives and different routines.