About Luisa
Luisa Passalacqua is a counsellor who uses somatic-informed methods alongside talking therapies to help people feel steadier in their bodies and lives. She works from the United Kingdom and brings 12 years of professional experience to sessions. Luisa is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, listed as BACP, and she offers work in English, French and Italian.
Her practice focuses on common but often painful struggles.
Background and approach
These include anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, sleep difficulties, anger and addictions. She also supports people dealing with relationship strain, parenting pressures, career stress and grief. Luisa aims to make the first steps easier for worried people and parents who want a calmer day-to-day.
In sessions she blends body-focused awareness with client-centred conversation. That means noticing physical responses while listening to what matters most to the person in front of her. She also draws on approaches such as attachment-based work, cognitive behavioural ideas and dialectical behaviour techniques when they suit the client’s goals.
Clients can expect plain language, short exercises and practical tools to try between sessions. Luisa pays attention to patterns that started in family of origin or earlier relationships, and she helps people map how those patterns show up now. The work is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.
Luisa offers online options for people outside her local area, including international clients. Sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging, and subscriptions can be cancelled at any time.
How somatic and relational approaches work online
Luisa uses somatic-informed work to bring attention to bodily responses alongside talking. This approach helps people notice and gently shift patterns such as tension, sleep disturbance or panic that show up in the body. It can be useful when anxiety, trauma or stress affect day-to-day functioning.She also draws on attachment-based therapy to look at how early relationships shape current ways of relating. That work helps people understand patterns in communication, closeness and trust. Client-centred therapy is another strand of her work, offering a calm, non-judgemental space where the person's priorities steer the sessions.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to identify which methods feel most helpful for each person’s goals and preferences. Sessions are paced to what feels manageable and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging, which give flexibility for different needs and schedules. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life or when travel is difficult, while still keeping the focus on practical tools and bodily awareness.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, French, Italian