Louise Kaye

Louise specializes in working with Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES), Bereavement and Loss, Neurodiverse (Autism, ADHD), Trauma Therapy, Young People

Louise’s professional background has focussed on working within the specialist educational sector. She decided to become a qualified counsellor due to her personal experience of counselling and a career change opportunity that led her to train as an integrative humanistic counsellor.

Driven by wanting to offer a listening ear and compassionate understanding to others. Louise feels a deep connection to herself because of her life journey and healing from childhood trauma, with this in mind she brings her knowledge and expertise to further support not only children but their wider family.

Louise is an integrative humanistic creative counsellor who works pluralistically. professionally working alongside clients who are experts in their lived life experiences. Adding the creative psychoeducational touch to sessions to offer different counselling perspectives to clients understanding of self.

Louise's work is also informed by Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy which is a way of working with significant developmental trauma, based on PACE (Playfulness, acceptance, curiosity, and empathy). This approach has deep roots when working with a Therapeutic Parenting model. Louise also offers a Parental Alienation-informed approach. Working with understanding family courts, Divorcing, breaking up, and co-parenting in a positive way that puts the child at the centre of the process and accepts the role of both parents and the wider family.

Louise's early career in registered childcare and early years children’s development. Moving through and working with many different and progressive educational settings, providing high-level mental health support, and managing differing behavioural barriers to learning, supporting, and recognizing a diverse and inclusive education for all.

Louise is specialized in managing neurodiverse and behavioural children’s education and behaviour support, with an emphasis on supporting the child/young person and enabling the team around the child which incorporates training and working to support parents and carers to further support the whole family approach, within the specialist behavioural academy educational setting.

During this time, it was her pleasure to support a varied range of diverse needs and areas including the Attachment focused approach, adverse childhood experience and early trauma, significant trauma, bereaved families, children with cancer, Neurotypical behaviour, and violent tendencies, supporting families and young persons during a process of diagnosis and further support as a specialist teaching assistant but also enabling and supporting mental health and emotional wellbeing as a trained Emotional Literacy Support Assistant.

Louise provides therapy to clients exploring life opportunities and experiences, intrusive thoughts, anxiety, low self-esteem, childhood trauma, and children and young people in private practice and local educational settings. Working with clients supporting diverse needs about working globally with awareness of cultural, ethnic, and religion in connection to the client’s context and family unit. also working with an excellent understanding of global mental health.