Louise Lant

Louise Lant is a counsellor who works from a person-centred foundation. She qualified in the United Kingdom in 2017 and has eight years' experience supporting people through stress, anxiety and big life changes. Louise aims to create a warm, respectful space where people can talk honestly about how they feel and what they need.

She often helps with low self-esteem, confidence and relationship or family tensions. Parenting pressures and feelings of isolation or loneliness are areas she regularly addresses. Louise also supports people facing midlife questions, life purpose concerns and difficulties with control or communication.

Person-centred work is central to her practice. That means she focuses on listening, empathy and building a trusting therapeutic relationship. She believes people already have strengths and resources and that counselling can help uncover them.

Alongside person-centred core work, Louise may draw on techniques from solution-focused approaches, compassion-focused ideas and cognitive behavioural therapy. These are used flexibly to suit each person’s needs and goals. She talks through practical steps and small changes, then reflects with clients on what helps.

Louise sees starting therapy as a collaborative process. She supports people as they identify priorities and try out new ways of coping. Her approach is simple, direct and rooted in respect for each person’s experience.

Therapeutic approaches and online working together

Person-centred therapy is about the relationship between counsellor and client. It focuses on being heard, understood and accepted so people can explore thoughts and feelings at their own pace. This way of working is useful for loneliness, stress and doubts about life direction.

Louise also uses ideas from solution-focused work, which looks for small practical steps and short-term goals that make a difference day to day. She may introduce compassion-focused techniques to help people be kinder to themselves, and simple cognitive behavioural ideas to notice and shift unhelpful thinking patterns.

Choosing the right approach is a shared task. The therapist will listen to what matters most, try different techniques, and agree together what helps. This collaborative process makes it easier to adapt the work if priorities change.

If you are considering online therapy, please confirm the session options before booking as the biography does not list formats. Online work can help fit counselling into a busy life, reduce travel, and make shorter check-ins easier to arrange around work or family commitments. It can also suit people who prefer not to use video and want a phone conversation instead, but check what formats are available when you match and schedule.