Louise Shepherd
Compassionate practical help for stress and anxiety
About Louise
Louise Shepherd is a counsellor with seven years' experience helping people manage stress, anxiety and the tiredness that follows long periods of pressure. She offers practical support for those feeling overwhelmed or stuck, and aims to make the first steps feel straightforward and manageable.
Her background includes work across mood difficulties such as depression and self-esteem problems, and in supporting people through life changes like separation or career shifts. She also focuses on trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and the strain that can come from parenting and caregiving.
Background and approach
Louise uses a mix of talking approaches depending on what someone needs. These include client-centred ways of working that prioritise the person’s own goals, cognitive behavioural techniques to spot and change unhelpful thinking, and mindfulness to ease intense emotions. Motivational interviewing and psychodynamic ideas also inform her thinking when useful.
Sessions are conversational and practical. She helps people notice patterns, practise different responses, and set small achievable goals. This may involve short exercises between sessions to test new ways of coping.
She works with issues including communication problems, commitment worries, body image, guilt and shame, dissociation, and compassion fatigue. Louise is listed with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, and sees people in the United Kingdom. To begin, people use the platform’s Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and book sessions to suit their schedule.
What Louise works with
How Louise works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Client-centred therapy focuses on the person’s own priorities. The counsellor listens without setting the agenda and helps people find their own answers, which can be useful for general life stress, low self-esteem and relationship worries.Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours. It teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms, and often includes simple exercises to try between sessions.
Mindfulness therapy helps people notice moment-to-moment experience without getting overwhelmed. Small breathing and awareness practices can reduce reactivity and help with stress and trauma-related symptoms.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The counsellor will discuss goals, try methods in-session, and adjust techniques based on what feels most helpful. This is a collaborative process and can change as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility to fit around work and family life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth or camera use is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging suits brief check-ins or people who prefer typed communication. These options make it easier to book regular sessions and to continue work between meetings.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| 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
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
