Louise Angel

Available to answer emails, but no sessions between 22/12/25 to 6/12/26

I don't see clients on weekends

I'm an experienced therapist and I love working with people from all walks of life, those with some experience of therapy and those who are new to this.

I encourage clients to see me as their 'thinking other person' alongside them; someone to explore their experiences with.

Through talking and thinking about issues, important people and relationships, different patterns surface and can be worked through by the individual more easily than before.

This process can lead to increased self awareness, greater freedom from repeated patterns of experience and an ability to be more whole as an individual. 

It's been my absolute pleasure and privilege to accompany so many folk over the many years I've been working and I never grow tired of learning from the precious people who do this work with me.

My official modality is 'Psychodynamic Therapy' which is simply the jargon that means a therapy which stems from Freud and his friends in psychoanalysis and this has been richly added to and developed over the years. This therapy therefore has strong foundations theoretically and is modern and relevant, warmly supportive and is very much aligned with the way I understand people, how we think and experience the world.

In short, I consider the importance of our defences in protecting us, I am mindful of meaning being unconscious (more deeply tucked away in our minds) as well as conscious (the stuff we feel more aware of and can pin point more easily), and I do place quite a lot of importance on our early life, the 'formative years' as they are often called.

I think we are all made up of not just our inherited material biologically but also all the significant people, places and things we have encountered throughout our lives. 

I don't tend to name exactly how many sessions someone will need although of course I respect clients freedom to choose when to start and end their therapy, my preference is to work in a more open ended way. For some clients this is a few months, for others it's longer. 

I offer a free 30 min introductory session so people can get a sense of me and what therapy with me will be like. I'd also a chance for me to hear what brings you to consider therapy at this time.