Louise Knight

Working hours are 9am to 8pm Monday to Thursday. 

For specific session availability please contact me via my website, by email or by phone/whatsapp. 

Examples of client issues I work with are things like:

Relationship impasse;  parenting style conflict; Parent concerns about teenage anxiety or school refusal; Young adult work stress, Parent / Adult child or Sibling conflict; Family estrangement; Low level but constant tensions; Communication issues...

Feeling anxious or depressed or lonely often comes to our attention through our relationships at home or at work or in our social lives. Anxiety, depression and other feelings or behaviour patterns that negatively impact life experience. 

Healthy relationships are pivotal to our overall sense of wellbeing. Our earliest attachment relationships form our blueprint for how we relate throughout life and we are continuously shaped by our environment and experiences. Symptoms like anxiety and depression are often indicative that something is amiss. By unpacking and challenging our stories, we can understand the roots of our issues, learn how our emotions send us messages through our behaviour, and work out how we might begin changing our experiences in relationships. We cannot change others but we can change our responses to them and our feelings in relation to them for the sake of our own peace. 

Everyone can learn to connect in ways that increase chances and the chances of those we share our lives with, to feel better. For people who are less comfortable talking about themselves and their emotions, films, books and poems can be a useful tool to explore characters and contexts that resonate as they are one step removed. If this interests you, we can identify suitable material together. 

I work with couples, adult relatives or friends, parents of dependent children, young people 11-17 and individual adults who experience relationship struggles in partner, family, social, school or work situations. 

Therapy can be short or long term, weekly, fortnightly, monthly and ad hoc according to need. Often, change can be quicker than expected - a little bit of insight and some well considered communication tools can go a long way! For current fee structure, please see my website. 

I offer face to face appointments in Totnes and Paignton for an additional fee (all dependent on room availability) or Stoke Gabriel with no additional fee. I also offer online therapy to clients anywhere in the world.  

By the end of the first session, we will have agreed a rough plan for areas of focus, (always subject to change according to your need) and desirable and realistic goals. 

For couples (and any combination of 2 people in the therapy), session 1 is always together, session 2 is split for meeting individually and session 3 onwards partners are together (occasionally, some separate sessions can be helpful later in the therapy).