Luisa Passalacqua, BACP

Luisa Passalacqua is a BACP counsellor who focuses on thoughts and everyday habits that shape how people feel and act. She offers calm, straightforward support for those facing stress, anxiety, depression and relationship struggles. Luisa speaks English, French and Italian and works from the United Kingdom. She has 12 years of professional experience helping people make practical changes in daily life.

Luisa draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships affect current patterns. She also uses client-centred ways of working that keep the person’s perspective central. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) techniques are used when helpful to address unhelpful thinking and coping skills.

Sessions focus on what matters day-to-day: sleep routines, managing anger, handling grief, and coping with family strain. Luisa guides people through small habit shifts and thinking tools to reduce distress and increase useful choices. She also supports work-related concerns, addictions, intimacy questions and parenting stresses.

Her background includes long-term therapeutic work with trauma and abuse, alongside coaching for life transitions. She helps people notice patterns such as codependency, avoidance, or control issues and then try practical alternatives. The approach is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.

To begin, the site’s Start Therapy button starts a short matching questionnaire and scheduling process. Fees vary by location and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.

Using attachment and cognitive approaches in online sessions

Luisa often draws on attachment-based ways of working to help people see how past relationships shape present thoughts and habits. Attachment-informed work looks at patterns in how people connect and respond to stress, and it can help with relationship strain, parenting questions and feelings of abandonment.

She also uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, which focuses on noticing unhelpful thoughts and testing small changes in routines or behaviours. CBT techniques can be useful for sleep problems, anxiety, low mood and managing anger by offering practical tools to try between sessions.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. The counsellor and client will review needs, goals and preferences together and try methods that fit the person’s life. This collaborative discussion helps decide whether attachment focus, CBT techniques or other ways of working feel most helpful.

The practical benefits of online therapy include easier scheduling and fitting sessions around work or family commitments, and the ability to have therapy while located in another country since international clients are accepted. The original biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm the current session options before booking to ensure they match your routine and needs.