Trauma can change the way the world feels. It can soften your voice, harden your guard, and leave you carrying stories that were never yours to hold. Healing asks for safety, attunement, and a therapy space that understands the nervous system’s wisdom as much as it honours the heart.

Louise offers trauma recovery that is gentle, paced, and deeply informed by the science of connection. Drawing on Polyvagal-informed approaches, she helps bring attention to how safety and threat are experienced in the body; creating space to explore tenderness without threat, closeness without collapse.

Together, you’ll explore the patterns and protections that once kept you alive. Using Schema Therapy, you’ll name the old narratives, meet the younger parts who still carry pain, and reshape the beliefs that hold you back from fully stepping into your life.

When the time is right, EMDR offers a structured way of processing distressing memories; making space for memories to feel less immediate, emotions to move, and your story to be held with greater dignity and perspective.

Louise has particular experience supporting those who have experienced:

• Childhood and developmental trauma

• Complex and relational trauma

• Chronic stress, neglect, or emotional invalidation

• The lingering impact of unsafe or unpredictable environments

This is not a rushed process, and it is not linear. But it is possible.

Trauma recovery with Louise is about supporting you to return to yourself; reclaiming voice, agency, and connection, so that the past no longer writes your future.

Many people who have been labelled with “personality disorder” have simply survived more than most. Often, the traits that are misunderstood or pathologised; intense emotions, deep sensitivity, fierce independence, difficulty trusting, began as adaptive responses to environments that were unpredictable, invalidating, or unsafe.

Women and gender-diverse people are far more likely to be diagnosed with personality disorders, and far more likely to experience stigma when they do. Louise recognises this, and offers support that sees the context behind the coping, not a diagnosis that defines you.

Longitudinal research indicates that substantial improvement and remission are possible for many people diagnosed with BPD, particularly with appropriate evidence-based treatment.

We adapt in remarkable ways to what we’ve lived through. With support, different ways of relating to yourself and others can become possible.

Louise draws on an integrated therapeutic approach, combining:

• Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and relationship skills

• Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) for strengthening attachment security, self-understanding, and connection

• Schema Therapy to explore deeply rooted self-beliefs and younger parts of self

• EMDR to support the processing of difficult memories and their emotional impact

This approach supports people experiencing:

• Emotional intensity and rapid mood shifts

• Relationship patterns that feel chaotic or painful

• Chronic shame, self-blame, or inner criticism

• Identity uncertainty or disconnection from self

• Fear of abandonment or feeling too vulnerable

• Self-protective behaviours that no longer serve them

Louise’s role is not to “fix” you, it’s to help you make sense of the patterns that once kept you safe or helped you cope, and to support you towards a more stable, compassionate, and grounded relationship with yourself and others.

Here, you are not a label.

You are a person with courage, history, and potential for change.

This is a space where your complexity is understood, not judged, and where your story is met with genuine respect.

Louise offers evidence-based support across a range of emotional, relational, and behavioural concerns; particularly when presentations feel complex, layered, or difficult to make sense of.

Trauma & Safety

• Trauma and post-traumatic stress

• Childhood and developmental trauma

• Relational and interpersonal trauma

• Dissociation, numbness, and detachment

• Sexual assault and violations of safety

• Family violence and abusive relationship dynamics

Personality & Identity

• Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)

• Personality-related patterns and traits (including narcissistic, histrionic, and antisocial presentations)

• Chronic impulsivity or risk-taking

• Intense or rapidly shifting emotions

• Persistent shame, self-criticism, or identity confusion

Emotion & Coping

• Anxiety and chronic worry

• Panic responses or emotional overwhelm

• Depression and low mood

• Stress and burnout

• Distress intolerance: difficulty managing intense emotions

• Anger, aggression, or difficulties with impulse control

• Self-harm urges or suicidal thoughts

• Substance use connected to coping

Relationships & Connection

• Attachment-related fears, including fear of abandonment

• Co-dependency and people-pleasing

• Repetitive relationship patterns or conflict

• Communication difficulties and ruptures

• Rebuilding trust after infidelity or betrayal

Adjustment & Life Change

• Coping with major life transitions

• Loss and grief

• Feeling stuck, numb, or disconnected from purpose

• Reestablishing self-worth and personal boundaries

Sometimes the patterns that drive distress are complex, layered, and not immediately visible. Comprehensive psychological assessment can provide clarity, guide treatment direction, and support safer decision-making in clinical, forensic, or organisational contexts.

Louise offers psychological assessment and consultation for concerns relating to personality structure, trauma-related adaptations, and emotional or behavioural risk. Her approach integrates clinical formulation with validated psychometric tools, including:

• Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI)

• Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)

• Psychopathy Checklist (PCL)

• And additional measures tailored to the referral question

Risk is understood in context; not as a fixed trait, but as something shaped by environment, history, nervous system learning, and current stressors. Louise can assist with:

• Primary and secondary consultation for complex presentations

• Structured assessment of personality patterns and vulnerabilities

• Risk assessment relating to self-harm, aggression, or dysregulated behaviour

• Formulation-driven recommendations to support stability and safety

Her reports and consultations are collaborative, trauma-informed, and stigma-conscious, centering dignity and transparency; especially when working with populations who have historically been misunderstood or mislabelled.

Assessment isn’t about putting someone in a box.

It’s about illuminating what’s driving the struggle and mapping pathways toward safer, more coherent living.