Louise Claydon, BACP

Louise Claydon focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship issues, low self-esteem, coping with life changes and coaching. She is a BACP counsellor with 11 years of experience. Louise offers a calm, warm approach that aims to help people feel understood and find practical ways forward.

She draws on a mix of approaches to suit each person. Sessions are conversational and down-to-earth. Louise listens, helps people spot patterns, and works with them to set achievable goals and small steps forward.

Her background includes private practice and work within the NHS over more than a decade. That range has exposed her to many common concerns such as abandonment, attachment issues, blended family matters, caregiver stress, and the emotional impact of illness or bereavement.

Louise uses methods that include attachment-focused thinking, client-centred listening, cognitive behavioural techniques, mindfulness and psychodynamic ideas. She explains things plainly and shows how techniques can be used in day-to-day life rather than as abstract theory.

People see her for many kinds of relationship and communication problems, body image and self-esteem work, and support through separation or changes in family arrangements. She also offers coaching-style work to build confidence and resilience.

Sessions are offered in English and can be arranged online in different formats. Louise aims to help people leave therapy with clearer thinking, practical coping strategies and a sense of direction.

How Louise’s approaches translate to online therapy

Louise uses client-centred counselling which puts the person’s concerns at the heart of each session. That means listening carefully, reflecting back what matters and helping clients decide the topics to focus on. It suits people who want a supportive, non-directive space to talk about difficulties.

She also draws on cognitive behavioural therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions link together. CBT gives practical tools and short exercises to try between sessions, useful for anxiety, stress and low mood. These techniques are easy to explain and can be practised during or after an online session.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and together they will choose methods that fit the person’s needs. This collaborative process can be adjusted as things change over time.

Online therapy offers flexibility in how people connect. Video calls let the conversation feel closer to an in-person meeting, phone sessions suit people who prefer no video, and live chat or text-based messaging can be used for brief check-ins or when someone needs a way to communicate without a full appointment. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or mobility limitations and to keep continuity when life is busy.