Elizabeth (Liz) Cook , BACP

Elizabeth (Liz) Cook is a UK counsellor with a compassionate, experienced approach to supporting people through difficult life moments. She qualified as a counsellor in the UK in 2012 and brings 12 years of professional counselling experience alongside 22 years of earlier work in social care supporting people with disabilities and their families. That background informs her understanding of how illness, disability, and caregiving responsibilities can affect individuals and family systems, and she is committed to offering practical, empathetic support for those situations.

She is trained in person-centred counselling and holds a qualification in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy - commonly called CBT - which she uses to help clients explore patterns of thought, feeling, and behaviour. Her practice includes extensive work with anxiety, depression, stress, grief, self-esteem difficulties, compassion fatigue, addictions, relationship and family issues, trauma and abuse, intimacy concerns, eating and sleeping problems, parenting challenges, anger, career transitions, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and coping with major life changes. She also focuses on areas such as abandonment, attachment, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, codependency, loneliness, guilt and shame, and life purpose.

She is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), which is a professional body for counsellors and psychotherapists in the UK. When meeting someone for the first time she allows plenty of time to hear about the person’s situation and goals, and then discusses how counselling might help, working collaboratively to agree the way forward.