Luisa Passalacqua, BACP
12 years in practice
Luisa Passalacqua is a counsellor who draws on hypnotherapy alongside talking therapies to help people find practical change.
License and registration
- BACP
- 405555 · expires January 2027
- Years in practice
- 12
- Languages
- English, French, Italian
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the registration with the body that granted it.
About Luisa
Luisa Passalacqua is a counsellor who draws on hypnotherapy alongside talking therapies to help people find practical change. She brings 12 years of experience in the United Kingdom and holds BACP registration. Luisa aims to make first steps easier by listening and working at the pace each person needs.
She focuses on a broad range of concerns such as anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, sleep problems, anger and addictions. Luisa also supports people facing relationship strain, parenting pressures, career stress and grief.
Background and approach
Her practice includes areas like attachment difficulties, codependency and body image concerns. Sessions are client-centred and grounded in realistic goals. She blends hypnotherapy with approaches such as attachment-based work, cognitive behavioural techniques and dialectical behaviour ideas.
That mix is used to help people manage thoughts, regulate emotions and try new behaviours between sessions. Luisa works with LGBT clients and people coping with long-term conditions, bipolar disorder, or compassion fatigue. She also addresses family of origin issues, blended family challenges and separation or divorce related distress.
Her multi-faceted focus helps match the approach to each person’s needs. She offers sessions in English, French and Italian and sees people across borders. Practicalities such as session format and scheduling are agreed together so the work fits around everyday life.
The emphasis is on steady progress and realistic steps forward.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Luisa lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Luisa names
- Hypnotherapy
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Hypnotherapy is used to help people access relaxed states and work on unhelpful habits or strong emotional responses. Practitioners may combine guided imagery and focused attention to support change related to sleep, anxiety or anger. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people understand trust, closeness and repeated interaction styles to improve how they relate today.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will explore a person’s goals, preferences and what feels most helpful. Together they decide whether techniques from hypnotherapy, attachment-based work or cognitive behavioural ideas are the best fit for the issues at hand.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can fit a shorter break or use less bandwidth, and live chat or messaging can suit people who prefer written check-ins. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, caring commitments or travel.
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Questions people ask
What concerns can Luisa help with?
Luisa supports people with anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, sleep problems, anger and addictions. She also works on relationship strain, parenting pressures, career stress, grief and many related family issues.
What style of therapy does she use?
Her approach is client-centred and practical, blending hypnotherapy with attachment-based work, cognitive behavioural techniques and elements of dialectical behaviour therapy. Sessions focus on managing emotions and testing new ways of coping.
How long has she been practising?
She has 12 years of professional experience working in the United Kingdom. That experience covers both short-term goals and longer-term therapeutic work.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, shown as BACP, and works from the United Kingdom.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English, French and Italian. International clients are also accepted.
In what session formats does she work?
She runs video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Different formats are used to suit practical needs and preferences.
How are sessions charged?
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