Art & expression
Working with mark-making, colour, and image to give shape to feelings that are hard to name.
River & Roots Therapy
Grounded in understanding.
Growing through change.
Compassionate dramatherapy and creative therapeutic support — a calm, safe space for children and adults to feel heard, held, and gently understood.
A welcome
A space to be met, exactly as you are.
River & Roots offers integrative, person-centred therapy for those navigating difficult feelings, change, or simply wanting to feel more at home in themselves. The work is bespoke, paced gently, and rooted in psychodynamic understanding.
You won't be asked to perform, push through, or be anything other than who you are today. Therapy here is collaborative, warm, and shaped around your own way of communicating — whether that's through words, image, story, movement, or quiet.
Meet Louise →How therapy can help
Support for the whole of you — not a problem to fix.
You are not broken. Therapy here is about understanding, exploration, and connection — making sense of your story so you can move through life with more ease, choice, and self-compassion.
Trauma and adversity
Neurodivergence
Anxiety
Attachment difficulties
Behavioural challenges
Emotional regulation
Relationship difficulties
Mental health challenges
Creative therapeutic approaches
Many gentle ways in.
Some feelings are too big, too tangled, or too quiet for words alone. Creative therapy offers other ways to be understood — without pressure, and always at your pace.
Storytelling
Using metaphor and narrative to gently explore experience at a safe distance.
Movement & play
Embodied and playful ways of working that meet the nervous system, not just the mind.
Talking therapy
Reflective conversation rooted in psychodynamic understanding and warmth.
For children & young people
Sessions meet your child where they are. Through play, story, art and movement, children find safe ways to express what's happening inside, supported by a calm and consistent therapeutic relationship.
Support for children →For adults
Whether you're navigating a difficult chapter, longstanding patterns, or simply a sense that something needs tending — adult sessions offer a reflective, unhurried space to explore, understand and grow.
Support for adults →Trauma & neurodivergent support
Therapy that respects your nervous system.
Sessions are trauma-informed and neurodiversity-affirming. The pace is yours. The communication style is yours. There's no expectation to mask, perform, or tolerate overwhelm. You can speak, draw, move, or stay quiet — whatever helps you feel safe enough to be present.
The aim is never to push past what feels manageable, but to gently widen the space where you can be with yourself.
In their words
Read more reflections →“For the first time, I felt allowed to slow down. Louise didn't try to fix me — she helped me understand myself with kindness.”
When you feel ready
Begin gently. There's no pressure.
You don't need to know exactly what you're looking for. A short message is enough — we'll take the next small step together, in your own time.
Reach out