Louisa Shillingford-Brown Counsellor

Louisa Shillingford-Brown is a highly-trained counsellor and psychotherapist. She is committed to maintaining the highest counselling standards, and is a member of the Counsellors’ & Psychotherapists’ Association of Victoria. Louisa is passionate about helping people make positive changes in their lives. She believes that for change to be long-lasting, people need to feel in control of the changes as they evolve. She is an empathic listener, and keen to understand your own views on your issues. She sees her role as empowering all clients to make the changes they seek. Louisa practices Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT). She understands how emotions affect our thoughts and how thoughts affect our behaviours. She believes that when we focus on changing the way we feel, we are able to influence our experiences. She helps her clients understand how their current emotional responses to difficult situations are connected to past events. In order to move forward, Louisa believes it is helpful for people to resolve how they feel about these past events. Louisa understands that facing painful emotions can be challenging. Therefore she ensures that the process is very gentle and taken at her client’s pace. Once the cause of the emotional response is identified, Louisa helps her client come to terms with it. This can result in a profound and powerful transformation of feelings and behaviours.