Louise Waterfall

• Psychophonetics method
• Somatic awareness
• Client-centred approach

About Louise

Louise Waterfall helps people work through stress, anxiety, trauma and grief using person-centred and body-focused methods. She works in Psychophonetics counselling, a short-term approach that is usually up to 12 weekly sessions. Louise is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and has 12 years' experience.

Her practice focuses on practical ways to notice what is happening in the body and in thought. She uses somatic awareness, gesture, visualisation and imagination to develop self-empathy. Sessions look at how difficulties such as relationship strain, loss, eating and addiction affect everyday coping.

Louise pays attention to patterns that hold people back, including attachment concerns, abandonment feelings and codependency. She also supports people dealing with caregiver stress, compassion fatigue and end-of-life issues. Work can address anger, self-esteem, dissociation and the sense of emptiness that sometimes follows major life change.

The Psychophonetics model she uses aims for a focused, time-limited process. Sessions identify a person’s growing point and explore what helps that movement forward. This often includes learning practical self-empathy exercises to use outside sessions.

She combines client-centred listening with existential questions about meaning and somatic techniques that help people reconnect with bodily experience. This mix is intended to bring clearer understanding and steps that can be practised between sessions.

How Louise uses client-centred and somatic methods online

Louise works with client-centred and somatic methods alongside existential questions. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what the person says, which helps people feel understood and identify practical next steps. Somatic Therapy draws attention to bodily sensations and simple exercises such as breath awareness, gesture and movement to help with trauma, anxiety and stress.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Louise will discuss goals and preferences and together decide which methods to use. That collaborative process helps shape session content and any exercises to try between meetings.

Check the available session formats before booking to confirm how she runs online appointments. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also allows practice of visualisation and guided somatic exercises from a familiar setting, which many people find useful when learning new self-empathy skills.

Topics Louise lists

• Stress and anxiety
• Trauma and abuse
• Grief
• Self-esteem
• Addictions
• Relationship issues
• Family conflicts
• Intimacy-related issues
• Eating disorders
• Parenting issues
• Anger management
• Career difficulties
• Depression
• Coping with life changes
• Compassion fatigue
• Abandonment
• Attachment issues
• Avoidant personality
• Body image
• Caregiver issues and stress
• Codependency
• Commitment issues
• Communication problems
• Dissociation
• Divorce and separation
• Eating and food-related issues
• Emptiness
• Forgiveness
• Guilt and shame
• Hospice and end-of-life counselling
• Isolation and loneliness
• Jealousy
• Life purpose
• Midlife crisis
• Mood disorders
• Polyamory and non-monogamous relationships
• Postpartum depression
• Post-traumatic stress
• Self-love
• Sexual assault and abuse
• Sexuality

Ways of working

• Client-Centred Therapy
• Existential Therapy
• Somatic Therapy

Questions about Louise

Does she work with anxiety?

Yes. Anxiety is listed among the main concerns she helps people with, along with stress and depression.

What kind of counselling does she offer?

She offers Psychophonetics counselling with an emphasis on client-centred, existential and somatic approaches.

What experience does she have?

She has 12 years of experience working in counselling and related approaches.

Is she a registered counsellor in the UK?

She is listed with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and practises in the United Kingdom.

Does she offer sessions in other languages?

Sessions are offered in English.

Can I have sessions from outside the UK?

She accepts international clients, so sessions can be arranged for people outside the United Kingdom.

How much do sessions cost?

Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.

How do I start counselling with her?

Click the Talk to a counsellor online button, complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule your first session.