Louise Phillipson
Compassionate practical help for everyday struggles
About Louise
Louise Phillipson helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, grief and trauma. She also supports those dealing with addiction, sleeping or eating problems, low self-esteem, ADHD and career concerns. She is NCPS credentialed and has three years of professional experience in the United Kingdom.
Her practice puts the client relationship first. She aims to be kind, compassionate and non-judgemental. Sessions focus on listening to what matters to each person and making space for honest conversation about thoughts and feelings.
Background and approach
Louise draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide practical change. She pays attention to how day-to-day routines, thinking patterns and relationships affect wellbeing. Work in sessions can include looking at coping strategies, building emotional awareness and planning small steps towards goals.
She has additional interest in supporting people with first responder issues and hospice or end-of-life concerns. Those areas shape how she approaches difficult conversations about trauma, loss and professional stress. Louise offers different ways to meet, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging.
People can start by completing a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions to suit their availability. Taking the first step can feel hard. Louise aims to make that step less daunting by offering a respectful, steady and practical approach to change.
What Louise works with
Sessions & fees
Approaches that guide online support
Louise uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional understanding. One approach she uses helps people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and try different ways of responding to stress and anxiety; this can reduce upsetting cycles and improve day-to-day coping. Another approach centres on processing trauma and difficult memories at a pace the person can manage, which helps reduce the intensity of distressing memories and improves emotional regulation.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist and client review problems, goals and preferences and then try methods that fit those aims. This is a collaborative process and methods can be adapted as needs change.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to make sessions more flexible. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit shorter check-ins, ongoing coaching-style support or times when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments.
| 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
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
