Louise Claydon

Louise Claydon is a BACP counsellor with 11 years of experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, low self-esteem and major life changes. She also offers coaching around resilience and practical problem-solving. Louise writes in a warm, non-judgemental way and focuses on the issues you bring to the room.

Louise uses a person-centred style that keeps the client's priorities central. She combines practical, solution-focused techniques with deeper work on patterns that may come from attachment or past relationships. Sessions often include clear strategies you can try between meetings alongside space to reflect on feelings and beliefs.

Her background includes work in private practice and the NHS, which informs a straightforward approach to everyday problems. Louise aims to help people build confidence, manage anxiety, and improve communication in their relationships. She also supports those coping with adoption and foster care issues, abandonment, ageing concerns and caregiver stress.

Common topics she addresses include body image, codependency, commitment and control issues, coping with illness such as cancer, and divorce or separation. Louise draws on cognitive behavioural tools and mindfulness to offer manageable steps for change. She also uses psychodynamic ideas to look at underlying patterns when that is helpful.

Sessions are delivered in English and the practice accepts international clients. The focus is practical and collaborative: setting goals, trying small changes and reviewing what helps. If you want a calm, supportive counsellor who works with real-life issues, Louise aims to meet you where you are and help you move forward.

How Louise’s approaches translate to online therapy

Louise draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. This can help when clients want to understand why they react a certain way in relationships and to practise new responses.

She also uses client-centred methods that put the client’s concerns at the heart of sessions. That means the work follows your priorities and pace, whether you need practical problem-solving or space to think things through.

Cognitive behavioural techniques are another common element, offering clear tools to manage anxiety, stress and unhelpful thoughts. Those techniques translate well to remote sessions because they include homework and short practice exercises between meetings.

Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Louise will work with you to identify goals, try methods that fit your needs, and adjust as you go. That collaborative stance helps find what actually helps in day-to-day life.

The biography does not list specific remote session types, so please confirm available formats before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit counselling into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and support practice of skills between appointments. Registered or accredited professionals often use these flexible options to help people keep therapy consistent alongside other commitments.