Louisa Addo-Williams

Hello, my name is Louisa and I am a qualified accredited counsellor and psychotherapist offering short and long-term therapy for Individual adults and young people. For over ten years I have gained and developed professional experience working with diverse communities and organisations; which has given me insight into various challenges people face and allowed my counselling practice to be more dynamic. Growing up I learnt expressing how I felt was a sign of weakness and accepted it was better to suffer in silence than allow anyone in. How many times have you been asked how you are and your response would be either I'm doing good or fine; yet deep inside your words do not match how you truly feel inside? Keeping up this facade can be overwhelming, emotionally and mentally draining, to say the least. At Sankofa Therapy I invite you to explore all the ways you have learnt to stay quiet and just get on with things while dismissing how you truly feel while putting others' needs and wants before your own.  I invite you to go back and get yourself so you can live the life you want to live.  "The power of Sankofa centres around this: to know the history and your heritage is to know your current self, the world around you, and how to better both". I will work with you to explore how to find your voice, assert yourself, speak out with confidence and slowly heal; repairing what was once broken. I believe what was once thought to be broken can be mended. Taking the first step to open up is not easy, especially to a complete stranger, I totally get that. My aim is to create a safe and transparent environment where at your own pace you can slowly unpack your thoughts and feelings; where you can take off your mask or amour and allow yourself to be listened to, understood and accepted. I have learnt during my own time in the client's chair that therapy is a process, not an event. In other words, change is made not just in one session but through a series of them.