Louise Best

Louise brings to Beacon House passion, knowledge, playfulness, and experience from the range of settings including the NHS, schools, Social Care, the charity sector, and creative arts venues. She is committed to offering support and specialist therapy to people of all ages who have experienced interpersonal trauma, with a particular interest in working with children, teenagers, and their families.

Louise had an interesting and diverse journey into becoming a therapist. Prior to training as a Dramatherapist, her background was in acting and arts education, where she learnt the power of facilitating group work, engaging with a range of different people from all walks of life, aiming to create safe spaces where people might process, learn, explore, play, and connect. She is passionate about how community, connection and creativity can offer opportunities for healing, and this is something she brings to her work at Beacon House – both in the therapy room and in the office with her colleagues, encouraging time for silliness and play!

Being part of a diverse team of likeminded, inspiring professionals is something Louise deeply values and the great thing about this job is that the learning never ends. As she continues to grow, she aims to share trauma informed approaches and education in ways that are accessible to everyone, drawing on a range of modalities to best fit the families she is working with: this might involve traditional talking therapy, or indirect therapeutic approaches using a range of creative techniques to explore themes and difficulties. Working in this way can allow for some distance between the individual and the pain they are struggling with, which can be useful when working with material that is sensitive and overwhelming.