Louis Carruthers
Compassionate counsellor for relationship and trauma concerns
About Louis
Louis Carruthers is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who supports people facing relationship problems, trauma and abuse, intimacy concerns, eating issues, depression, stress, anxiety and addictions. He also helps with LGBT matters, family stress, anger and career worries. He is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, abbreviated BACP.
In sessions he offers a calm, non-judgemental space to talk about difficult feelings and behaviours. He adapts his style to each person rather than using a single method.
Background and approach
Conversations aim to build self-awareness and practical movement toward change. His training includes person-centred, psychodynamic, existential, cognitive and relational influences. He also draws on embodied and somatic ideas when addressing trauma.
This mix is used to help people understand patterns and try new ways of coping. Louis has four years of experience and has worked with issues such as depression, anxiety and eating disorders. He has kept his professional learning focused on relationship and intimacy concerns and on relational trauma.
His background includes work in community safety, special educational needs (SEN) education and housing support for vulnerable tenants. That experience informs his practical approach to problems such as antisocial behaviour and situations linked to the criminal justice system.
What Louis works with
Sessions & fees
Approaches that guide online therapy
Person-centred work focuses on listening and understanding. It helps people feel heard and clarifies what they want to change in relationships, mood or behaviour.Psychodynamic ideas look at past patterns and how they appear now. This can help people spot repeating relationships, attachment issues or roots of anxiety and depression.
Embodied or somatic approaches use attention to the body alongside talk. They can be useful when trauma shows up as dissociation, chronic tension or physical symptoms linked to stress.
Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about their needs, goals and preferences and then try methods that fit. If something does not feel helpful, the plan is reviewed together and adjusted.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people read facial cues and use visual connection, while phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and text messaging are useful for short check-ins and for people who prefer writing to speaking. Registered or accredited professionals can combine these formats to match a person's schedule and comfort, making it easier to keep therapy consistent.
| 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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
