Louis Carruthers , BACP

Louis Carruthers is an integrative counsellor who maintains a private practice in the City of London and the London Borough of Bexley. He works with adults and couples, offering both in-person and online sessions to address a wide range of behavioural, emotional, and relationship concerns. Louis creates a non-judgmental space where clients can explore their thoughts and feelings, build self-awareness, and move toward healing and personal growth.

His training spans several therapeutic models including person-centred, psychodynamic, existential, cognitive, and relational approaches, and his work also draws on embodied or somatic methods for trauma. This breadth allows him to tailor interventions to each individual, selecting techniques that fit a client’s needs and preferences rather than following a single protocol. Ongoing professional development has given him particular depth in relationship and intimacy work as well as relational trauma.

Louis has experience supporting people with depression, anxiety, eating disorders, family and relationship difficulties, and a variety of intimacy-related concerns. His professional background includes roles in community safety, special educational needs settings, and housing for vulnerable tenants, and he is comfortable working with clients involved in anti-social behaviour or the criminal justice system. He is a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and practices in line with the BACP Ethical Framework.

Therapeutic Approaches for Online Support

Louis Carruthers draws on cognitive techniques that help clients identify and shift unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviours; these approaches are useful for issues such as anxiety, depression, and stress where thought-feeling-behaviour links are important. He also uses relational approaches that focus on patterns in close relationships and how past attachment and interaction styles influence current difficulties - these methods are often applied to intimacy, communication, and relationship challenges. In work with trauma, Louis incorporates embodied or somatic methods that attend to physical sensations and the body's responses, supporting people who experience dissociation or relational trauma to reconnect with felt experience in manageable ways.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is treated as a collaborative process. Louis works with clients to explore their goals, preferences, and responses to different techniques, adapting the way he works as the therapeutic relationship and progress unfold.

Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. These formats make it easier to access consistent support from licensed professionals regardless of location, and they can be shaped to fit each person's practical needs and therapeutic aims.