Louisa Harris
Calm, practical support for chronic overwhelm
About Louisa
Louisa Harris helps people who feel overwhelmed, exhausted, or stuck when life shifts. She works with concerns such as anxiety, depression, stress, grief and relationship struggles. She also supports those facing parenting strain, career dilemmas, chronic illness, or the fallout of trauma and abuse.
Louisa uses straightforward, tailored conversations to make sense of what is happening now. She listens for patterns that keep problems repeating and helps people try different ways of coping.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps and clearer thinking rather than jargon or tests. She holds a BACP accreditation, which means she meets the standards of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Louisa has five years of counselling experience in the United Kingdom and offers sessions in English.
Her approach adapts to the person in front of her. That might mean looking at attachment and abandonment worries, supporting someone through body image or eating concerns, or helping a person manage ADHD-related overwhelm. The work is collaborative and paced to what each person can manage.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Therapy is arranged through a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time, and fees vary with location and therapist availability. To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
What Louisa works with
Sessions & fees
How evidence-based techniques work online
Louisa draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques adapted for online work. One common approach focuses on understanding patterns between thoughts, feelings and actions to reduce anxiety and depression. It helps people spot unhelpful thinking and try small experiments to change how they feel. Another approach looks at attachment and abandonment issues by exploring relationship histories and current patterns, which can help with intimacy and communication concerns.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. She will talk with each person about their goals, preferences and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they agree on a plan and adjust methods as the work progresses so it fits real life.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls are useful for in-depth sessions with visual cues, phone sessions suit those who prefer not to be on camera or who have bandwidth limits, and live chat or text sessions work for brief check-ins or when someone needs to type out thoughts. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, health needs or caring responsibilities while keeping the focus on steady progress.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
