Louise Taylor , NCPS

Louise Taylor is an accredited psychotherapeutic counsellor registered with the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS). She brings five years of clinical experience supporting people through relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, anxiety and depression and other life challenges.

Her path to counselling is shaped by a varied professional background that includes work as an actor, dance and drama teacher, lecturer at a specialist college for adults with learning disabilities and autism spectrum conditions, assistant to an art therapist in Singapore, and long-term mentoring and tuition for university students with mental health needs. These experiences contribute to a creative, empathetic approach that values each person’s story.

Her practice blends person-centred principles with cognitive behavioural techniques and expressive arts methods such as art, music, movement and story making. She has undertaken extensive additional training to work with trauma, including Applied Emotional Freedom Technique and courses focused on trauma, addiction, autism, couples work, mindfulness and working with self-harm and suicidal ideation. Qualifications include a Post Graduate Certificate in Advanced Counselling and Psychotherapy Studies, two MSc degrees in Psychology and Forensic Psychology, a Level 5 Professional Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling Practice, a Post Graduate Certificate in Education, and a BA Hons in Theatre Studies.

Louise integrates creativity into therapeutic work and adapts to each client’s preferred way of communicating. She aims to listen without judgment, avoid giving prescriptive answers, and support clients as they find their own solutions, whether through words, drawing or other expressive methods.