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🌿 Oak & Willow Therapeutic Counselling
Supporting growth, resilience, and change.
Professional counselling shaped around you, drawing on a range of therapeutic approaches and nature-based metaphors to support reflection, understanding, and emotional wellbeing.

Hello, I’m Louise, a therapeutic counsellor offering a pluralistic approach tailored to your individual needs.

I draw on a range of therapeutic methods, combining insight, support, and practical tools to help you navigate life’s challenges.

I also incorporate nature-based practices, using the calm and grounding qualities of the natural world to support reflection, emotional healing, and personal growth.

My aim is to create a safe, non-judgmental space where you feel seen, heard, and supported.

I am passionate about helping clients build resilience, find balance, and reconnect with their inner strength, and I am committed to guiding you on a journey of self-discovery and wellbeing.

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Counselling support tailored to your needs

You may be seeking counselling because you are experiencing anxiety, low mood, stress, burnout, relationship difficulties, loss, or the ongoing impact of past experiences. Psychotherapeutic counselling offers a confidential, supportive space to explore these difficulties safely and at your own pace. At Oak & Willow Therapeutic Counselling, I recognise that no single therapeutic approach suits everyone. Just as nature adapts to different conditions, counselling is most effective when it is responsive to you as an individual.

Pluralistic Psychotherapeutic Counselling

I work pluralistically, meaning my work is guided by your goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful to you, rather than following one fixed model of therapy. This collaborative approach allows counselling to evolve as your needs change. Depending on what feels appropriate, our work may include: ~Talking therapy to explore thoughts, feelings, and lived experiences ~Gaining insight into emotional patterns and relationships ~Practical strategies to support emotional regulation and coping ~Relational and attachment-informed counselling ~Trauma-aware and ethically grounded practice ~The use of nature-based metaphors to support grounding, reflection, and personal growth

Nature-informed therapeutic work

Nature provides meaningful metaphors for understanding change, resilience, and emotional processes. Where helpful, we may gently draw on themes such as seasons, growth, roots, balance, and restoration to support insight and self-compassion. Nature-informed work can help to: ~Support emotional grounding and regulation ~Encourage reflection during periods of change or uncertainty ~Explore resilience, strength, and adaptability ~This is always optional and guided by your comfort, consent, and preferences.

What you can expect from counselling

A confidential, non-judgemental counselling space Professional, ethical psychotherapeutic practice aligned with NCPS values A collaborative therapeutic relationship Therapy that respects your pace, autonomy, and lived experience Like growth in nature, therapeutic change is gradual and individual — there is no pressure to move faster than feels right for you.

Ways of working

Counselling is offered in a way that suits your needs, preferences, and circumstances. Sessions may take place: Face to face counselling in a calm, confidential setting Walking therapy, using gentle movement and natural surroundings to support reflection and grounding Online counselling via secure video platform Telephone counselling, offering flexible and accessible support We can talk together about which option feels most comfortable and appropriate for you, and this can change over time.

Mashbury Road, Great Waltham, Chelmsford, UK

Enquire about counselling If you are considering pluralistic psychotherapeutic counselling and would like to explore whether we could work together, you are welcome to get in touch. Book an initial consultation | Contact Oak & Willow Counselling

Thank you for giving a space to be sill in. To process and to learn, to heal and to move forward. Thank you for your empathy and patience when I have unloaded. For your compassion and understanding if I have been in a different headspace. Thank you for your welcoming energy and for me to feel safe in.

Dear Louise, thank you for being my smooth, cool, calm, rock. You held me together when everything was falling apart. A massive thank you.

You have given me the strength and belief that, I, the fallen can rise again. Just like the trees when all appears lost, I can bloom again and return bigger and stronger ever before. There is hope, I see that now. Much love and eternal gratitude.

What can I say when thank you isn't enough? Lost in a world where I didn't belong. Ears that listened without judgement, a voice heard, not silenced, a glimpse of light in a very dark tunnel. Belief in the unbelievable, a sense of purpose. A safe place.

🌿 Oak & Willow Therapeutic CounsellingSupporting growth, resilience, and change.Professional counselling shaped around you, drawing on a range of therapeutic approaches and nature-based metaphors to support reflection, understanding, and emotional wellbeing.

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