About Louise Flaherty
A grounded, experienced counsellor for the conversations that matter
Louise works with adults, couples, families and teens who want to understand what is happening, find steadier ways to cope, and create meaningful change.
- ACA Registered Counsellor
- 25+ years’ experience in youth & family therapy
- Gottman Level 1 & 2
- Aldinga & Fullarton + online
About Louise Flaherty
I work holistically with adults, couples, families and teens who want to understand how they can make change in their lives.
Louise Flaherty, ACA Registered Counsellor
Why clients come to Louise
Support for the parts of life that feel hard to untangle alone
Louise brings warmth, steadiness and practical therapeutic skill to conversations that can feel too loaded, painful or confusing to carry by yourself.
Relationship and family strain
Communication, conflict, parenting, separation stress, reconnection and patterns that keep repeating.
Anxiety, grief and life pressure
A calm space to make sense of what feels overwhelming, uncertain or emotionally heavy.
Addiction, coping and change
Practical support for patterns that are hard to shift alone, including substance use and coping strategies that no longer serve you.
How Louise works
Warm, practical and collaborative therapy
Louise’s work is warm, practical and collaborative. She brings evidence-based approaches into real conversations — helping you understand patterns, build skills, and find a steadier way forward.
Her role is not to judge or tell you who to be. It is to offer a neutral, grounded space where change becomes easier to see and practise.
Every session is shaped around what you need — whether that means learning a specific skill, processing something difficult, or having space to think out loud.
Louise draws from Gottman Method and Imago for relationship work, CBT for thoughts and behaviour, and narrative or trauma-informed approaches for deeper exploration.
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Relationship-focused
Support for couples, families and individuals who want to understand patterns and build more respectful connection.
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Evidence-based
Louise draws from Gottman Method, Imago, CBT, narrative therapy, trauma-focused approaches and motivational interviewing.
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Nature-informed
For people who feel clearer outdoors, Louise can incorporate nature therapy and grounded, body-aware ways of working.
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Practical and skills-based
Sessions focus on insight you can use — better communication, coping skills, boundaries and next steps that feel possible.
Credentials and experience
Experience you can feel confident in
Louise combines long-standing practice experience with specialist training in relationship therapy, addiction counselling, family work and evidence-based therapeutic approaches.
Registration and experience
- ACA Registered Counsellor
Australian Counselling Association - Degree: Psychology
- 25+ years’ experience in youth & family therapy
Further qualifications
- Counselling
- Drugs & Alcohol Counselling
- Family Conferencing
Additional training
- Gottman Couples Therapy
Level 1 & 2 - EMDR training in progress
Not currently offered as a service
Louise is a counsellor registered with the Australian Counselling Association and works within the Australian Counselling Association Code of Ethics.
Who Louise works with
Find the support that fits where you are
Whether you are coming alone, as a couple, with a teenager or as a family, the first step is understanding what kind of support would be most useful.
Couples
Communication, conflict, trust and reconnection.
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Teens
Support for young people navigating pressure, change and identity.
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Individuals
Anxiety, grief, addiction, stress and life transitions.
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Families
Family conflict, parenting stress and rebuilding steadier dynamics.
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Start with a short conversation
If you are not sure where to start, the first step can simply be a short conversation. Louise offers a free 5-minute consultation so you can ask questions, explain what you are looking for, and see whether it feels like the right fit.
Share a little about what you are looking for and Louise will reply with the next step.