Hi, I’m Lou

I continue to use these practices daily in my own life.

I’ve had a very complex past which has allowed me to live in many different countries and cultures as a child and teen. I love the multitude of ways that we hold our pasts and become ourselves, as well as the different ways that we are acculturated. The diversity of my history, as well as my training, informs my work. 

A variety of ethnicities, sexualities, genders, and abilities are welcome in my work and are part of my life. I currently live on the land of the Kalapuya, Warm Spring, Paiute and Wasco tribes, amongst others, a land also known as Oregon. 

I was raised in a cult focused on “human development”. As a result, I had very little contact with my family and I was separated from my parents from age 12.

The cult was also an activist organisation that addressed economic and racial injustice within society. Many Black Indigenous People of Colour, or Black and Brown people, live in impoverished communities in the US due in part to racial injustice. This is true internationally as I also discovered.

My childhood was spent in the USA, Zambia, Brazil and India. Wherever I went, I was respected. I did not feel threatened even when I was the only white person present. I knew that this wasn’t true for my friends and neighbours of darker skin tones. This experience as a child and teen fuels my need to address racism within my life and practice, always.

I am also lesbian and non-binary. My gender and sexual identity were not things that I came to easily. The way I was raised did not facilitate knowledge of my needs, and there was no acceptance of a queer identity. The trauma inherent in that struggle also informs my practice.

Therapeutic approach:

I acknowledge that we all have strategies for coping with the world we live in, whether we call them parts, patterns, addictions or habits. These strategies often developed when we were children. Some of these ways of doing things continue to be useful and some are no longer working for us.

Therapy is a great place for being with what is happening in our lives and discovering what is no longer working, giving respect and understanding for all of our history and all of the ways that have helped us survive our past. Allowing space for what is happening now assists us in moving on as it empowers us to choose new paths based on our current reality. The practice of awareness and trusting my client is the foundation of my work. I use many different energy practices to create a bridge into the body and release trauma responses. 

Training and Qualifications:

Lou is accredited by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and accredited by the EFT and Matrix Re-imprinting Academy. They first trained in Core Process Psychotherapy, a Buddhist psychology-based training. They have over 30 years of experience in counselling and psychotherapy, having worked with people in hospitals, doctors’ surgeries, agencies, prisons and private practice. They have also trained and practised as an addiction counsellor.

Lou’s training:

• Core Process Psychotherapy, UKCP, 1991-1995  (https://karunainstitute.co.uk/post-graduate-diploma/)
• Guided Self Healing, Energy therapies, 1999-2000  (http://www.guidedselfhealing.org)
• Certified Alcohol and Drug Counsellor, Oregon 2003
• Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology, University of Oregon, 2005
• Association of Meridian Therapies EFT accreditation, 2009
• Counselling Supervision training with Palmoasis, now Oasis-talk, 2012
• EFT Levels 1, 2 & 3 EFT and Matrix Re-imprinting Academy, 2013-2015 (efttrainingcourses.net)
• EFT Trainer’s training, EFT and Matrix Re-imprinting Academy,  2016
• Facilitation for Leaders, Process work UK, 2019 (https://www.processworkuk.org/)
• Ancestral Healing, 2025

Contact:

Lou works online, by telephone, outdoors and internationally via Zoom and telephone. They offer an initial 20-minute complimentary face-to-face or telephone consultation to answer your questions and discuss working together.

Get in touch by ringing +1 541 515 3543, emailing lou@energycounselling.co.uk, or filling in the contact form below.

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