Louise Knight
COUNSELLING • COACHING • MENTORING
TEENAGERS • YOUNG ADULTS • PARENTS
ONLINE • TOTNES • DEVON
Welcome to my website
Talk for change
Louise Knight AdvDip,
M.Ed. PGCE, BA(Hons)
Life experience
I am a parent of two, grandparent of three and I was a teacher for 26 years in the UK and around the world before training as a counsellor.
Counselling experience
I have worked with clients facing life challenges like divorce, shared parenting, single-parenting, step-parenting, adoption, co-dependent relationships, multicultural relationships, sibling rivalry, addiction, mental health diagnosis, relationship issues within families, problems with compliance in school, bullying, adolescence, teenage anxiety, procrastination and low mood... and the wider implications of these issues and others.
My Beliefs as a Counsellor/Coach/Mentor
Our earliest relationships and experiences shape us and impact our relationships throughout life.
We are continuously shaped by our environment and experiences so with understanding of the roots of our issues and knowledge of new or alternative ways of being, we can choose to effect change.
Human beings are each unique and everyone has the capacity for making change in the way they experience the world and the people with whom they share it, including those with a mental health diagnosis.
Sometimes people need the support of another to help them identify the roots of their difficulties and identify strategies and tools for change. This is the role of the counsellor/coach/mentor.
High anxiety, depression, excessive procrastination, hyper-activity are all indicators that something is amiss.
Resilience, inner peace, organisation, agency, personal responsibility, effective communication can all be developed through the counselling and coaching relationship.
“Oh Louise, you really get my brain.” — Client, November 2023.
Counselling through the life stages
Parenting can be a joy and a challenge. Parents of babies, toddlers, children, pre-teens, teenagers and young adults all face difficulties, tensions and relentless pressure from society and themselves to get it right.
While Adolescence can be an exciting life phase with increasing independence and opportunities, it can also be a challenging one. Being a teenager can feel lonely, confusing, pressured, misunderstood… It is a time of turmoil for many and family, friend and peer relationships can become difficult.
Young adults have increasing responsibilities and decisions to make but sometimes feel ill-equipped to make them.
Talking to someone outside your immediate context, like a counsellor, can help you to explore your unique and complex challenges, find your agency within them, develop skills to navigate them and find ways to make change or to live with acceptance and peace. I have extensive experience supporting parents and young people to find inner calm and practical solutions.
I am based near Totnes in Devon.
Most sessions are held online via zoom/Google Meet/ Whatsapp which enables me to work with you whether you are in Paignton, Torquay, Dartmouth, Exeter Plymouth, or anywhere in the world.
Get in touch
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about how counselling, coaching and mentoring works or to book an introductory session at half the usual price. Please message me via the form here or call on 07541857110.
An introductory session enables us to discuss the reasons you are thinking of coming to counselling, whether it could be helpful for you and whether I am the right therapist to help.
Research suggests that online counselling is equivalent to face to face counselling in terms of building a therapeutic relationship and counselling outcomes. Its flexibility in terms of location means fewer sessions need to be cancelled by counsellor or client and of course travelling time for the client is eliminated meaning your 50 minute session does not actually take 2 hours from your day for example.
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