Louise Knight
COUNSELLING • THERAPY • MENTORING
SIDMOUTH • TOPSHAM • EXMOUTH • BUDLEIGH SALTERTON • ONLINE
Welcome to my website
Talk for change
Louise Knight AdvDip,
M.Ed. PGCE, BA(Hons)
I was a teacher for many years and spent half my working life overseas in Scandinavia, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. I found the relationship aspect of teaching a very important part of successful learning for children and I have valued and enjoyed the opportunity to form professional and work relationships with adults, young people and children of many cultures. This love of connection and growth in relationship is what drew me to counselling.
I am especially interested in how our early attachment relationships and experiences in the family, in early care and in school, shape our attachment styles and how this impacts how we are in relationships and in the world throughout our lives.
I believe we are continuously shaped by our environment and our experiences. This is a hopeful perspective as it means we do not need to be forever defined by earlier adverse experiences or current concerns.
We can choose whether we sit still in the boat and let the wind and waves take us where they will or we can choose to adjust the sails, maximise our comfort and determine our own direction. As a counsellor I can join you in the boat as a crew supporting you to navigate your journey. I can support you to explore the what and why of your struggles and through the therapeutic relationship you can develop self-awareness, resilience, self-compassion and skills - the inner resources you need to make positive change.
We live in a ‘medical model’ society. I understand mental health diagnoses and how a diagnosis can benefit the individual, but I am especially interested in the person behind the diagnosis. I am a Person Centred Counsellor who draws on other counselling modalities and life experience to create a tailor made therapeutic space for individual clients. We are all uniquely normal.
“Oh Louise, you really get my brain.” — Client, November 2023.
Get in touch
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about how counselling, therapy 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.
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