Louise Ward Integrative Therapy
LOUISE WARD
LOUISE WARD
COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL HYPNOTHERAPY
Understand what keeps you stuck.
Learn how to change it.
Practical, evidence-based therapy tailored to you — helping you understand what is happening, respond differently, and move forward with greater clarity and confidence.
Sometimes understanding why isn’t enough.
You might feel anxious, caught in overthinking, stuck in familiar patterns of thought, emotion or behaviour, held back by fears and habits that no longer serve you — or simply feel that you no longer quite recognise yourself.
Therapy can help you make sense of what is happening, understand the patterns beneath it, and begin responding in ways that feel more helpful, intentional and more aligned with who you are now.
A more complete approach.
Cognitive behavioural therapy helps you understand the patterns keeping a problem going. Behavioural work helps you begin changing those patterns in real life. Hypnotherapy can then be used to strengthen new responses through focused attention, rehearsal and imagination.
My approach is also trauma-informed, which means working with an awareness of how past experiences can shape present thoughts, emotions, behaviour and nervous-system responses.
The aim is not simply to talk about what is happening, but to help you understand it, practise something different, and make that change easier to carry into everyday life.
LOUISE WARD
I’m a Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapist with a practical, evidence-based and trauma-informed approach to change.
I’m particularly interested in helping people understand the patterns behind how they think, feel and respond, and in making therapy something that feels useful beyond the therapy room.
Sessions are collaborative, focused and tailored to the individual rather than built around a fixed formula.
BSc (Hons) Psychology · Level 5 Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy · Registered practitioner · Northamptonshire
LOUISE WARD
I’m a Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapist with a practical, evidence-based and trauma-informed approach to change.
I’m particularly interested in helping people understand the patterns behind how they think, feel and respond, and in making therapy something that feels useful beyond the therapy room.
Sessions are collaborative, focused and tailored to the individual rather than built around a fixed formula.
BSc (Hons) Psychology · Level 5 Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy · Registered practitioner · Northamptonshire
What we might work on.
Therapy can be useful when you know something needs to change, even if you’re not yet sure what that change looks like.
Anxiety and overthinking
Stress, overwhelm and burnout
Confidence, self-worth and self-criticism
Social anxiety and self-consciousness
Phobias, fears and avoidance
Habits and unwanted behaviours
Assertiveness, boundaries and people-pleasing
Emotional regulation and emotional suppression
Core fears and limiting beliefs
Patterns shaped by past experiences
Anxiety and overthinking
Stress, overwhelm and burnout
Confidence, self-worth and self-criticism
Social anxiety and self-consciousness
Phobias, fears and avoidance
Habits and unwanted behaviours
Assertiveness, boundaries and people-pleasing
Emotional regulation and emotional suppression
Core fears and limiting beliefs
Patterns shaped by past experiences
Sessions.
Sessions are 60 minutes and cost £125.
Appointments are available face-to-face from my private practice in Northamptonshire and online. To enquire about availability or arrange an initial session, email:
Practical details.
Please arrive at your scheduled appointment time for face-to-face sessions. There’s no need to knock — I’ll come and greet you when it’s time.
Sessions are booked for 60 minutes and may occasionally run slightly over, so it’s worth allowing a little contingency afterwards. If you arrive late, we may still need to finish at the original time.
24 hours’ notice is required for free cancellation.
Writing.
Alongside my therapy practice, I write about many of the same human themes that sit at the heart of therapeutic work: identity, fear, attachment, behaviour, loss, resilience and change.
As Louise Ward, I explore these ideas directly through psychology — looking at the patterns that shape how we think, feel and behave, and making psychological concepts practical, understandable and relevant to everyday life.
As Louise Hirst, I explore many of the same themes through fiction: what happens when fear, loyalty, trauma, attachment, identity and survival collide, and the choices people make when there are no simple answers.
The two forms of writing approach the same territory from different directions.
Fiction asks the questions. Psychology explores the answers.
I'm currently writing my new novel, Lifers.
The story began with a simple question: what kind of person do you become after a life shaped by trauma, bad decisions and the loss of freedom? At the heart of it is the line, “I just wanted to see what kind of man you had become, Julian.”
From there, Lifers became an exploration of what people carry with them, what they leave behind, and whether it is ever possible to create order from a life repeatedly pulled towards chaos.
That tension between chaos and order is also something I’m exploring in my next psychology book.