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My name is Louise Cushen and I am a therapeutic counsellor, working in a reparative, person-centred way with an integrative training background. I have experience working with young people and adults finding their way through life's changes and challenges.

I have predominately worked with young adults between 16-19 year olds and this was extremely rewarding work. Offering therapeutic support in the form of short and long term interventions for life's challenges, anxieties and the age of self discovery. We work together to grow confidence and self-esteem, finding realistic ways of managing anxiety, low mood and self-harm. I work to foster an environment that allows the client to be open and progress to their own timescale, creating a space where they can develop their own inner support system.

Most recently I have also been working with males 35 - 60 who are navigating moments past, present and future. Many come to explore their relationship with anger and how this affects them professionally and in relationships. We will focus on what lies beneath the anger at the clients pace, validating the feelings that need to be acknowledged and allowing them space to move on. Anxiety and depression are often what brings clients to sessions, I offer attentive listening, reflecting and gentle curiosity allowing clients to share what others find hard to hold, or you feel too guilty to burden them with.

Clients have reflected back, when they are ready to end the therapeutic relationship, feeling freer and more ready to face the challenges that life throws at us. They reflect feeling understood and met where they were, without a need to be something they were not.