Louise Baxter, BACP, NCPS

Louise Baxter is a counsellor registered with the BACP and NCPS and has six years' experience working with adults in the United Kingdom. She works with stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression, addiction and codependency alongside many other concerns. Sessions are delivered in English and she accepts international clients.

Louise uses an integrative approach which she describes as a toolkit. She adapts methods to suit what each person brings. That can mean using person-centred conversations to explore strengths, or focused techniques to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. The practical aim is to help people notice patterns and try different ways of responding.

Her trauma work includes eye movement approaches aimed at reducing the hold of troubling memories and changing learned emotional responses. She also draws on cognitive behavioural ideas for thinking and behaviour work, and attachment-based perspectives to look at how early relationships shape current needs and reactions. Emotionally-focused ideas are used when relationship feelings and closeness are causing pain.

Sessions tend to be client-led, with the therapist and client agreeing on goals and steps together. Louise describes some work as solution-focused when people want short-term, goal-orientated changes. Transactional Analysis is also available to unpack recurring communication patterns and behaviour in relationships.

People often come with issues such as grief, parenting strain, eating or sleeping problems, anger, career pressures, ADHD or feelings tied to abandonment and attachment. Louise invites questions about the process and the practicalities of starting work together.

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