Louis CarruthersBACP

Louis Carruthers is a counsellor who supports people with relationship strains, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related concerns, eating problems, depression, stress and anxiety. He also helps with addictions, anger, career worries and LGBT matters. He works with individual adults and with couples and offers sessions both in person and online. Louis is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. He takes an integrative approach, drawing on person-centred, psychodynamic, existential, cognitive and relational ways of working. He also uses embodied and somatic ideas when addressing trauma. Sessions focus on building self-awareness, making sense of difficult patterns and exploring practical steps that might help day-to-day life. Louis has particular experience with depression, anxiety, eating difficulties and family and relationship problems. He keeps learning through continuous professional development, especially around relational trauma and intimacy concerns. That ongoing training shapes how he adapts sessions to each person. His background includes roles in community safety, special educational needs education and housing for vulnerable tenants. That experience informs his interest in working with people who have been involved in anti-social behaviour or the criminal justice system. People can expect a non-judgemental space where the emphasis is on listening and collaboration. Louis aims to help clients notice patterns, try new ways of relating and move towards clearer choices about relationships and wellbeing.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online work

Louis blends person-centred and relational ways of working. Person-centred work focuses on listening, empathy and helping people find their own answers. Relational work looks at how current relationships and past connections shape feelings and behaviour, useful for intimacy and attachment issues.

He also draws on embodied or somatic approaches for trauma. These methods pay attention to bodily sensations and movement as part of understanding and working through traumatic responses. This can help when talk alone does not fully address how trauma shows up in the body.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and try methods that fit the person's needs and preferences, checking in and adjusting as the work progresses.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, for example by removing travel time or allowing sessions from a familiar location. It can also allow shorter check-ins or flexible scheduling to suit work and childcare demands. The biography indicates both in-person and online options are used, so confirm specific session formats and practical arrangements before booking.