Louise McNamara
Training Psychotherapist
Louise is a third-year Gestalt Psychotherapist student, completing her Level 9 Masters with the Gestalt Institute of Ireland (SETU). As a student member of the Irish Association of Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy (IAHIP), she holds certifications in suicide prevention (ASSIST) and trauma understanding, with experience supporting parents of children with anxiety.
As a Gestalt psychotherapist, Louise believes that psychotherapy involves discovering what needs healing from the past by observing how it manifests in the present. She is passionate about exploring how life experiences shape not only our relationships with ourselves and others but also the choices we make. Louise honours the client’s unique journey through her Gestalt approach, fostering therapeutic change when both therapist and client are fully present in the moment.
Louise offers a confidential and compassionate space to help clients explore their difficulties and discover their capacity for healing. She welcomes individuals dealing with anxiety, abuse, grief, trauma, relationship challenges, life transitions, or low self-esteem, as well as those seeking support for feelings they cannot quite name.
With a creative and holistic approach, Louise integrates symbols, metaphors, imagery, and body awareness into her work. Her Gestalt therapeutic approach is grounded in a belief in each person’s capacity for growth and healing. Viewing each person as unique, she sees their differences as strengths and their struggles as opportunities for creative adjustment. Meeting clients where they are in their life journey, Louise fosters authentic, relational encounters with genuine curiosity, engaging clients as whole individuals—body, mind, and spirit—to support them in navigating life more freely and choicefully