- Attachment based work
- CBT and DBT skills
- Grief and intimacy
About Luisa
Luisa Passalacqua is a BACP counsellor in the United Kingdom with 12 years of professional experience. She works with adults on concerns such as family problems, trauma and abuse, sleep difficulties, anger, anxiety, depression and relationship strain. Her practice also includes work on addictions, parenting stress, self-esteem and issues around intimacy and grief.
Luisa uses approaches grounded in attachment and client-centred ways of working. She aims to help people talk through how past relationships affect current feelings. Sessions often focus on practical steps and clearer thinking to manage everyday stressors and mood changes.
She also draws on cognitive behavioural therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and on dialectical behaviour therapy skills for emotion regulation. Existential ideas are used to look at meaning and values when people face big life changes or feelings of emptiness.
In conversation she tends to be straightforward and calm. She encourages people to describe specific moments that carry guilt, shame or worry, then looks at how those moments fit into broader patterns. That makes it easier to try new ways of responding, bit by bit.
Luisa works with a wide range of relational issues such as abandonment, attachment concerns, blended family pressures and communication problems. She also supports people managing co-morbidity, bipolar symptoms, and the strain of career or caregiving roles.
How Luisa uses established approaches in online work
Luisa commonly draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to help people see how early relationships shape current feelings and reactions. This approach looks at patterns of connection and helps pinpoint where guilt or shame links back to unmet needs or losses.She also uses Client-Centred Therapy, which focuses on listening and following what the person says matters most. That method helps people speak about difficult memories at their own pace and decide what to try next.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Luisa will discuss goals, preferences and practical needs and then suggest which methods to try first. That decision is collaborative, and may change as sessions show what helps most.
Confirm current session options before booking, as formats are not specified here. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, shorten a check-in when time is tight, avoid travel, or choose a session style that needs less bandwidth or camera use. Registered or accredited professionals like Luisa aim to match approach and practical arrangements so therapy fits with everyday life rather than adding extra strain.
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Experience
12+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English, French, Italian
Frequently asked questions
Which concerns does she work with?
She helps people with family problems, trauma and abuse, sleep issues, anger, anxiety, depression and relationship or parenting strain.
How does she approach guilt and shame?
She invites people to describe the moments that feel heavy and considers how those moments link to past relationships and current thinking patterns.
What is her professional background?
She has 12 years of experience working with adults on a wide range of emotional and relational issues.
What credential does she hold and where is she based?
She is registered with the BACP and practises in the United Kingdom.
Can I work with her in other languages?
Sessions are offered in English, French and Italian.
Does she accept international clients?
She does accept international clients; confirm session options and timing when you book.
How are sessions paid for?
Costs vary with location and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule your first session.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger or thinking about harming yourself, use the crisis numbers.