Luisa Passalacqua
Supportive therapist focused on relationships and coping
About Luisa
Luisa Passalacqua uses relationship-focused and practical talking therapies to help people feel steadier in their lives. She combines approaches that look at attachment, thinking patterns and present-day coping. Luisa works in English, French and Italian and is based in the United Kingdom.
She holds BACP accreditation and brings 12 years of experience to her work. People often come to her for help with anxiety, stress, depression, grief and difficulties with intimacy or relationships.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing trauma and abuse, parenting strains, addictions and career pressures. Luisa pays attention to how early relationships influence current patterns and the ways thoughts and behaviours keep problems going. Sessions are practical and conversational.
She uses client-centred listening to map what matters most to the person sitting opposite her. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy ideas are used when unhelpful thinking or behaviours need to change, and attachment-based work addresses how people relate to others. Luisa adapts tools to everyday life, such as small behavioural experiments, grounding techniques and clearer communication strategies.
She explains options in plain language and helps people try things between sessions. The emphasis is on realistic steps that fit into a busy day. Her pace is collaborative rather than directive.
Luisa aims to create a calm, non-judgemental space where people can speak openly about fear, loss, anger and confusion. She supports practical problem solving alongside emotional understanding.
What Luisa works with
How Luisa works
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Listed by Luisa among the ways they work.
Listed by Luisa among the ways they work.
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Sessions & fees
How attachment and practical approaches translate online
Luisa blends attachment-based ideas with client-centred listening and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) tools. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and can help with intimacy, trust and repeated relationship problems. Client-centred therapy focuses on empathic listening and helping people find their own answers by reflecting their experience back in a non-judgemental way. CBT looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour and helps when anxiety, low mood or unhelpful habits are getting in the way.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they try different methods and adapt techniques so they match the person’s needs rather than sticking to a single method.
Online formats make this flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy around work, family and travel while using the same therapeutic approaches discussed above.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| 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
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, French, Italian
