Louise Fineberg, BACP

Louise Fineberg is a counsellor who uses a client-centred way of working to support people through difficult times. She holds BACP registration and brings nine years of experience helping people with relationships, trauma, grief, low self-esteem and low mood. Louise aims to make the first steps into therapy straightforward and respectful.

In sessions she starts by listening carefully to the story each person brings. That listening helps identify what matters most now and which patterns are getting in the way. Louise draws on client-centred practice to prioritise the person's own goals and pace the work around their needs.

She also uses mindfulness techniques to help people notice thoughts and feelings without getting overwhelmed. Those simple practices can aid sleep, reduce anxious thinking and make emotional moments easier to manage. Psychodynamic ideas are used when it seems helpful to look at how past experiences shape current reactions.

Louise has worked with a wide range of concerns over nine years, including addictions, eating and body image issues, chronic illness and cancer-related distress, fertility and parenting pressures, and the emotional impact of divorce or domestic violence. She helps people talk through commitment or communication problems and cope with losses or sudden upheaval.

Work with Louise is collaborative and practical. Sessions focus on what people need now, while also noticing longer-term patterns. To begin, people are invited to take a short matching questionnaire and arrange their first appointment.

How Louise's approaches translate to online therapy

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening closely and following the person's priorities. In practice this means sessions begin with open conversation about what the person most wants to address and moves at their chosen pace. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple noticing exercises and breathing or grounding practices to reduce reactivity and manage sleep or anxiety; these tools can be practised between sessions. Psychodynamic Therapy looks at how past experiences influence present behaviour and can help make sense of recurring patterns and emotional reactions.

Finding the right approach is a shared process. Louise will work collaboratively to try different ways of working and agree what feels most useful. The plan can change over time as needs, goals and preferences become clearer.

The biography does not specify which online formats are offered, so confirm available session types before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, for example by avoiding travel, allowing shorter check-ins around work breaks, or reducing the need to be on camera for every session. Registered and accredited professionals often use these practical options to help therapy slot into everyday routines while focusing on the issues that matter most.