I am Louise Whitehead. Thank you for visiting my web site.
I offer Counselling and Psychotherapy services to individuals, couples, families and groups as well as Executive Coaching Consultations. With over 15 years in the Psychotherapeutic field, my aim is to aid people experiencing personal and professional challenges to achieve a better quality of life through working together to increase self awareness. My specialist area is working with individuals who suffer with stress, anxiety or depression caused by relationship or work related issues or by major and traumatic life changes such as divorce or loss of a close relationship.
Making the most of ourselves is a very basic motivational instinct that we all recognise within us. Clients have often said that as a result of working with me they have been able to develop the awareness, attitudes, values, beliefs and behaviours necessary to lead rewarding, fulfilling and satisfying lives through:-
- Getting to know and understand themselves better
- Utilising coping strategies to deal with personal difficulties e.g. anger, anxiety, bereavement, phobias, panic, self esteem, stress and trauma
- Building, sustaining and revitalising relationships with others
- Valuing difference in others
- Improving parenting and family relationship capabilities
- Developing their professional careers
- Adjusting to the life changes needed to support family with developmental delay and learning difficulties
- Believing that they can lead others successfully
- Exploring their spiritual side
I also offer Executive Coaching and am a qualified practitioner in Emotional Intelligence Assessment, which is an accurate and effective way of measuring how people manage their emotions and deal with the emotions of others. I use this alongside DISC, a validated work style behaviour tool which gives insight into how behaviour impacts on the job and colleagues around the individual. I am a business practitioner in NLP which enable people to understand and use language patterns more effectively to increase persuasion skills and create motivational strategies at work.
My experiences ranges from relationship issues, the need to refocus in life direction (career transitions) and professional turning points to motivating others to move forward in times of changes or life turbulence, working alongside the individual to unblock the way forward.
My main training being in Social Psychology, and Gestalt Psychotherapy, I work with individuals, small groups and couples on a long or short term basis Psychotherapy approach modelled on each individual’s specific needs. I am also experienced in Motivational and Leadership Coaching for businesses across the country and the USA. I use the influences of my training in Occupational Therapy, NLP, Stress Management, Art Therapy and Business Coaching to aid my clients in acquiring techniques to apply in everyday life. The key is to help individuals to support themselves and to unlock the true potential that lies within...
As a member of the BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy), BPS (British Psychological Society), Gestalt Centre, The Zen School of Shiatsu and The London College of Reflexology, I work in accordance with their Codes of Ethics and Practice. |
