Rate Louisa Addo-Williams

Hello. My name is Louisa, and I am a qualified, accredited counsellor and psychotherapist offering both short—and long-term therapy for individual adults and young people. Over the past ten years, I have gained extensive experience working with diverse communities and organisations. This has given me valuable insight into the challenges people face, making my counselling practice more dynamic and adaptable.

Growing up, I was taught that expressing my feelings was a sign of weakness, and I believed it was better to suffer in silence than let anyone in.

How often have you responded, “I’m good” or “I’m fine,” even when those words didn’t reflect how you truly felt inside? Keeping up this façade can be overwhelming, emotionally and mentally exhausting.

I invite you to reflect on the ways you’ve learned to stay silent and just carry on, often putting others’ needs and wants before your own. Together, we can explore how to break this cycle and help you reclaim your voice, so you can live the life you want.

As the Sankofa proverb teaches: “To know your history and heritage is to know your current self, the world around you, and how to better both.”

I will work with you to find your voice, assert yourself, speak with confidence, and begin to heal and repair what was once broken. I believe that what may feel broken can always be mended.

Taking the first step to open up isn’t easy—especially to a stranger. I understand that. My goal is to create a safe, transparent space where you can, at your own pace, unpack your thoughts and feelings. A place where you can remove the mask or armor and allow yourself to be truly listened to, understood, and accepted.

Through my own time in the client’s chair, I’ve learned that therapy is a process, not an event. Real change happens not in a single session, but through the journey we take together.