Luke Brownlee-Williams

My aim is to create a safe, confidential and warm space in which to explore the issues which you bring. Together with a focused and boundaried approach I like to bring creativity, warmth and humour into the counselling room along with my passion for this area of work.

I believe that anxiety or depression can be a way of drawing our attention to what is currently inhibiting us from engaging fully in our life. I appreciate that it may be difficult initially to engage in the counselling process. However, I believe that living with these unexplored difficulties is even more distressing.

Each counselling relationship is unique and I value each client’s individuality when working together. I can work with you on a short term, long term or open ended basis depending on your need. The therapy I offer will involve us developing clear boundaries in which to explore the past/present issues that are affecting your life and together discover a path to move forward.

The first step can be a daunting one, but identifying that there is an area of life that you would like to change is the biggest step of all. Our first session will be a chance for me to explore with you the reason for seeking counselling; a chance for you to ask any questions you may have about this process and for me to see if I would be the best person to help you at this time. If we choose to work together we can then arrange a regular time to meet.

If you would like to arrange an initial assessment please email, text or call to book a mutually convenient time.

My aim is to create a safe, confidential and warm space in which to explore the issues which you bring. Together with a focused and boundaried approach I like to bring creativity, warmth and humour into the counselling room along with my passion for this area of work.

I believe that anxiety or depression can be a way of drawing our attention to what is currently inhibiting us from engaging fully in our life. I appreciate that it may be difficult initially to engage in the counselling process. However, I believe that living with these unexplored difficulties is even more distressing.

Each counselling relationship is unique and I value each client’s individuality when working together. I can work with you on a short term, long term or open ended basis depending on your need. The therapy I offer will involve us developing clear boundaries in which to explore the past/present issues that are affecting your life and together discover a path to move forward.

I am an experienced accredited BACP Counsellor, Coach and Supervisor with over 10 years experience.  I practice in accordance with the BACP code of ethics, am fully insured and hold a current DBS check. I currently work in Private Practice online or Face to Face in Bristol or Stroud.

I attend weekly Supervision, am fully insured and attend regular continual professional development (CPD) activities/days.

If you would like to arrange an initial assessment, please email, text or call to book a mutually convenient time.

I currently have availability for new supervisees, both online and in person at my office in Brimscombe, Stroud.

I offer two session formats:

60 minutes — £70. The most popular option, with room to think properly.

90 minutes — £90. For those carrying a complex caseload or preferring less frequent, longer sessions.

All formats are available online UK-wide or face to face.

I also offer group supervision for organisations and teams by arrangement. If you're a practice manager, clinical lead, or service coordinator looking for external supervision for your staff, please get in touch to discuss.

Get in touch via the contact form or call 07399 679 240.

My supervisors have changed my practice and my life. The good ones showed me how much thinking space matters — where the cases that keep you awake at night finally get looked at properly, where you remember why you chose this work in the first place. That experience is what I try to bring.

My supervision is rooted in a simple belief: most of our clients' struggles trace back to the relationship they have with themselves. Not the polished, predictable version they're trying to maintain — the anxious, binary, future-predicting version that scans constantly for threat and calls it safety. Real therapeutic progress moves people away from that rigid self-management toward something looser, more honest, more alive. Less a perfectly painted landscape. More a piece of modern art — uncertain in places, but genuinely theirs.

What I'm really interested in is you — your countertransference, your clinical voice, whether the way you're working is actually sustainable. I bring psychodynamic depth, relational honesty, and the practical experience of running a successful private practice myself. Alongside the clinical work, I understand the less visible labour of being a therapist — caseload decisions, referral pathways, finances, the isolation of working alone. All of it is fair game.

Expect warmth, genuine challenge, and room for humour — because if we can't laugh at the absurdity of this work occasionally, we're probably not processing it properly.

I work with trainees, newly qualified, and experienced practitioners online and in person across Bristol and Stroud.

I love this job. The privilege of being trusted with the parts of people they rarely show anyone else — there is nothing quite like it. But it asks an enormous amount in return. Not just clinically — though that alone is considerable. You're tracking attachment patterns, holding trauma, staying attuned to what your client can't yet say, while simultaneously monitoring your own internal weather. Session after session. Week after week.

We are practising in one of the most turbulent periods most of us can remember. EAP contracts are shrinking. Insurance fees are frozen while platforms like BetterHelp compete directly for our clients. Many of us — whether we trained for it or not — now have to think of ourselves as businesses. SCoPEd is reshaping the profession in ways that feel seismic but remain publicly unexplained. The ground keeps moving.

And then you get home. You argue with your son. Your partner is exhausted. You lose your temper at the roadworks. You feel unwell and sit down to work anyway. Counselling and psychotherapy require real focus — sustained, regulated, present-moment attention — and that needs a fit mind and body. Not easy when you absorb the emotional weight of other people's lives for a living.

This is the reality of practice. And it's the part supervision most often forgets to ask about.

If any of this resonates, I'd like to hear from you.

Before we commit to working together, I offer a free 20-minute phone or video consultation — just a conversation. A chance for you to get a sense of how I work, ask any questions you have, and for us both to decide if there's a good fit.

If we agree to proceed, the first full session is charged at my standard rate. I don't rush into the work itself. Instead I want to understand you — where you're practising, who you're working with, and what your working environment actually feels like day to day. The emotional and practical pressures you're carrying. Your client group and the particular challenges they bring.

I'll want to know about your training and background, your therapeutic orientation, and how that shapes the way you work. What drew you to this approach. Where you feel confident and where you feel less sure.

By the end of the first session we'll have the beginnings of a working contract and, more importantly, a genuine sense of each other. If it doesn't feel right for either of us, that's fine too. The consultation costs nothing and commits you to nothing.

I currently have availability for new supervisees, both online and in person at my office in Brimscombe, Stroud.

I offer two session formats:

60 minutes — £70. The most popular option, with room to think properly.

90 minutes — £90. For those carrying a complex caseload or preferring less frequent, longer sessions.

All formats are available online UK-wide or face to face.

I also offer group supervision for organisations and teams by arrangement. If you're a practice manager, clinical lead, or service coordinator looking for external supervision for your staff, please get in touch to discuss.

Get in touch via the contact form or call 07399 679 240.

My supervisors have changed my practice and my life. The good ones showed me how much thinking space matters — where the cases that keep you awake at night finally get looked at properly, where you remember why you chose this work in the first place. That experience is what I try to bring.

My supervision is rooted in a simple belief: most of our clients' struggles trace back to the relationship they have with themselves. Not the polished, predictable version they're trying to maintain — the anxious, binary, future-predicting version that scans constantly for threat and calls it safety. Real therapeutic progress moves people away from that rigid self-management toward something looser, more honest, more alive. Less a perfectly painted landscape. More a piece of modern art — uncertain in places, but genuinely theirs.

What I'm really interested in is you — your countertransference, your clinical voice, whether the way you're working is actually sustainable. I bring psychodynamic depth, relational honesty, and the practical experience of running a successful private practice myself. Alongside the clinical work, I understand the less visible labour of being a therapist — caseload decisions, referral pathways, finances, the isolation of working alone. All of it is fair game.

Expect warmth, genuine challenge, and room for humour — because if we can't laugh at the absurdity of this work occasionally, we're probably not processing it properly.

I work with trainees, newly qualified, and experienced practitioners online and in person across Bristol and Stroud.

I love this job. The privilege of being trusted with the parts of people they rarely show anyone else — there is nothing quite like it. But it asks an enormous amount in return. Not just clinically — though that alone is considerable. You're tracking attachment patterns, holding trauma, staying attuned to what your client can't yet say, while simultaneously monitoring your own internal weather. Session after session. Week after week.

We are practising in one of the most turbulent periods most of us can remember. EAP contracts are shrinking. Insurance fees are frozen while platforms like BetterHelp compete directly for our clients. Many of us — whether we trained for it or not — now have to think of ourselves as businesses. SCoPEd is reshaping the profession in ways that feel seismic but remain publicly unexplained. The ground keeps moving.

And then you get home. You argue with your son. Your partner is exhausted. You lose your temper at the roadworks. You feel unwell and sit down to work anyway. Counselling and psychotherapy require real focus — sustained, regulated, present-moment attention — and that needs a fit mind and body. Not easy when you absorb the emotional weight of other people's lives for a living.

This is the reality of practice. And it's the part supervision most often forgets to ask about.

If any of this resonates, I'd like to hear from you.

Before we commit to working together, I offer a free 20-minute phone or video consultation — just a conversation. A chance for you to get a sense of how I work, ask any questions you have, and for us both to decide if there's a good fit.

If we agree to proceed, the first full session is charged at my standard rate. I don't rush into the work itself. Instead I want to understand you — where you're practising, who you're working with, and what your working environment actually feels like day to day. The emotional and practical pressures you're carrying. Your client group and the particular challenges they bring.

I'll want to know about your training and background, your therapeutic orientation, and how that shapes the way you work. What drew you to this approach. Where you feel confident and where you feel less sure.

By the end of the first session we'll have the beginnings of a working contract and, more importantly, a genuine sense of each other. If it doesn't feel right for either of us, that's fine too. The consultation costs nothing and commits you to nothing.