Louise Waterfall
Compassionate, body-aware therapy for everyday life
About Louise
Louise Waterfall uses a client-focused style that helps people feel heard and understood. She blends talk-based work with body awareness to address stress, anxiety, trauma and grief. Her approach aims to make change feel manageable and relevant to daily life.
Louise draws on client-centred therapy to place the person's experience at the heart of sessions. She offers existential perspectives to help people face life choices, meaning and feelings of emptiness.
Background and approach
Somatic work is used to notice how bodies hold stress and to build practical ways to soothe physical tension. Across 12 years of practice she has supported people dealing with low self-esteem, addictions and eating or body image concerns. She also helps with relationship difficulties, intimacy-related problems, communication challenges and the strain of caregiving.
Work can address grief, compassion fatigue and the stresses that come with major life changes. Her additional focus includes abandonment and attachment issues, dissociation, commitment questions, guilt, shame and forgiveness. She also offers support around divorce and separation, hospice and end-of-life matters when those topics arise.
Sessions often include simple exercises in self-empathy, breathing and body awareness alongside guided imagery and gesture. The practical aim is to help people notice patterns, find small changes that fit their life, and build ways to cope day to day.
What Louise works with
How Louise works
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Listed by Louise among the ways they work.
Listed by Louise among the ways they work.
Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Louise combines client-centred work, existential reflection and somatic awareness to help people make sense of difficult feelings online. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person's story, helping them feel validated while they consider small changes. Existential Therapy looks at meaning, choice and values, which can be useful for people facing emptiness, major life changes or questions about purpose. Somatic Therapy brings attention to bodily sensations and simple movement or breath exercises to reduce physical stress and support emotional regulation.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist works with each person to identify what feels most helpful based on their goals and preferences, trying different methods and adjusting the focus as things change over time.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls suit more in-depth conversations and exercises that use visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging allow for shorter check-ins, ongoing reflection and support between calls, which can fit around work or caregiving commitments.
| 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
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
