Louis Carruthers, BACP

Louis Carruthers is a counsellor who supports people dealing with relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, intimacy concerns, eating issues, depression, stress and anxiety. He also helps with addictions, LGBT issues, family tensions, anger and career-related stress. He holds membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, shown as BACP.

Carruthers offers a calm, non-judgemental space where people can talk through what is troubling them. He aims to help clients build self-awareness and find ways to move forward. Sessions focus on practical steps as well as understanding deeper patterns that affect daily life.

His practice blends several approaches. He uses person-centred listening alongside psychodynamic and existential ideas to make sense of personal history and meaning. Cognitive techniques are used where thinking patterns are getting in the way of feeling better.

Embodied and somatic methods are also part of his work with trauma, helping people notice how stress shows up in the body. He adapts his approach to each person, choosing what is most helpful in the moment.

Carruthers has four years' experience and keeps developing his skills through continuous professional development, especially around relationships, intimacy and relational trauma. He has worked in community safety, special educational needs settings and housing services, which informs his practical understanding of complex social situations.

How therapeutic approaches shape online work

Louis Carruthers draws on several evidence-informed methods to help people online. Person-centred work focuses on listening and reflecting so clients feel heard and understood; it suits people wanting a steady, empathic space to talk. Psychodynamic ideas look at patterns from a person's past and how they repeat in current relationships, which can help with longstanding relationship and intimacy issues.

He also uses embodied or somatic approaches for trauma. These approaches help clients notice bodily sensations tied to stress and learn simple ways to regulate physical responses. That can be useful when anxiety or trauma shows up as tension, numbness or repeated physical reactions.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to decide what methods match a person's goals, needs and preferences, and he will adapt the plan as work progresses.

Practical benefits of online therapy include fitting sessions more easily into a busy week and reducing travel time. Online sessions can allow shorter check-ins when people need brief support, or video work when visual connection helps the process. The biography indicates both in-person and online work, so confirm which session types are offered before booking to make sure they suit your routine and technical setup.