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 your body relearn what safety feels like — 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 supports the brain’s natural ability to heal — helping memories lose their sting, emotions move, and your story reorganise itself with dignity and truth.

Louise specialises in 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 returning 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.

BPD in particular is highly responsive to the right treatment. Research consistently shows that most people significantly recover — with many no longer meeting diagnostic criteria over time. Symptoms calm, relationships stabilise, and life becomes far more manageable and meaningful.

You are not broken. Your system adapted — brilliantly — to challenge.

With support, it can adapt to safety too.

Louise draws on an integrated and highly specialised 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 transform deeply rooted self-beliefs and heal younger parts of self

• EMDR to release the emotional burden of past trauma stored in memory and the body

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, and to support your growth into 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 enormous 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

• Codependency 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 specialist assessment and consultation for concerns relating to personality structure, trauma-related adaptations, and emotional or behavioural risk. Her approach integrates deep 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.