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Elizabeth Cooper, BACP
- Credentials
- BACP
- Experience
- 8 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Relationship issuesTrauma and abuseGriefSelf esteemDepression
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Elizabeth Cooper welcomes people who are feeling stuck, overwhelmed or unsure where to turn. She aims to build a trusting, honest connection so clients feel heard and understood from the first session. Her style is warm and down-to-earth, with a focus on helping people take practical steps towards clearer thinking and steadier emotions.
Elizabeth works in a relational, integrative way. She believes early attachments shape how people relate to themselves and others, and that understanding those patterns helps change them.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on noticing unhelpful habits, recognising emotional responses, and learning different ways to cope and communicate. She uses simple, grounded language rather than jargon so conversations stay easy to follow. Her background spans healthcare, mental health and education.
She has worked in A&E and surgical settings, community health visiting, rehabilitation, end-of-life care, learning support, schools and nurseries. That range informs a holistic outlook on emotional and practical needs. Elizabeth holds a BA (Hons) and a science degree in counselling and is BACP accredited.
She also has a level 7 qualification in nursing and healthcare. She has eight years of professional experience and has provided psychotherapy, supervision and group work within charities and counselling services. In sessions she draws on several approaches, blending ideas so therapy fits each person.
She encourages clients to develop self-awareness and to use their own strengths to make lasting changes. The work is collaborative and paced to suit individual goals.
Relational approaches and online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values, which can be useful for anxiety, depression and life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns, helping people understand repeated ways of relating and build healthier connections. Emotionally-Focused Therapy concentrates on understanding and shifting emotional responses to improve emotional closeness and personal insight.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Elizabeth will discuss options with each person and adapt methods over time. She takes a collaborative stance, helping clients set goals and picking techniques that match their needs and preferences rather than following a fixed formula.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer shorter messages or regular written check-ins between sessions. These options can make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and travel while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 8 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
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