Louise McQuillan

I work both online and face to face in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire. 

I see clients during the day Monday - Thursday but have availability on other days after 17.00. Get in touch to see if I can work around your availability. 

I am an accredited counsellor and psychotherapist with over 20 years’ experience working in NHS healthcare, including 10 years as a qualified NHS counsellor.

I work with adults who are struggling with anxiety, panic, emotional overwhelm or the long-term effects of trauma. Many people I support have experienced early relational or attachment difficulties, and find that these experiences continue to affect how safe they feel in themselves, their bodies or their relationships.

My work is trauma-informed and body-based. Rather than focusing only on thoughts, I help clients develop greater nervous system regulation through grounding, breathwork and gentle body awareness. This creates a sense of safety and stability, allowing difficult experiences to be explored at a pace that feels manageable.

Alongside my trauma work, I have over a decade of experience providing counselling within the NHS, including support with anxiety, panic, bereavement, stress, relationship difficulties, depression, and experiences around pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period.

I offer both online and in person sessions.

Please do contact me to set up a free 15min consultation to find out more and see if I am the right therapist for you. 

Currently offering FREE supervision as I complete my hours as a trainee Supervisor.

I am an accredited counsellor and psychotherapist with over 20 years’ experience working in NHS healthcare, including 10 years as a qualified NHS counsellor.

In the last few years I moved into private practice and now work both online and in-person here in West Yorkshire.

I finally got round to doing my Supervisor training and I absolutely love it. I have decided to offer a limited number of supervision sessions for free whilst I complete my hours as a trainee Supervisor. Supervision from a trainee supervisor is recognised by the BACP, however these hours cannot be counted towards accreditation. Please do get in touch to find out more about what this means for you in your practice.

My original training (2010-2014) was in the dialogue between Person centred and Psychodynamic counselling at the University of Edinburgh. My research as part of this Masters degree was an auto-ethnography on my own experience of trauma as an ICU nurse.

My back ground in critical care as an ICU nurse led to my interest in how people recover emotionally from a critical illness and I developed a pilot counselling service for patients & families in the NHS. I went on to provide a staff Wellbeing programme and was a founding member of a patient led support group too.

This work led to my specialism in trauma and I am fully trained in the Comprehensive Resource Model (CRM) and am IFS, SE & DBR informed having had initial trainings in these modalities too.

My work with clients is trauma-informed and body-based. Rather than focusing only on thoughts, I help clients develop greater nervous system regulation through grounding, breathwork and gentle body awareness. This creates a sense of safety and stability, allowing difficult experiences to be explored at a pace that feels manageable.

Alongside my trauma work, I have over a decade of experience providing counselling within the NHS Occupational Health Staff Counselling service, including support with anxiety, panic, bereavement, workplace related stress, relationship difficulties, depression, and experiences around pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period.

My current private practice includes both in person & online 1:1 counselling for adults, Reflective Practice for both individuals and groups in the workplace and Supervision for Counsellors.

Please do get in touch for a chat and see if we would be a good fit. Warmly, Louise

I offer both online and in person sessions. 

Face to face sessions are held at Cocoon, a calm, welcoming yoga & therapy studio in the centre of Holmfirth.

Please do contact me to set up a free 15min consultation to find out more and see if I am the right supervisor for you.