About Elizabeth
Elizabeth (Liz) Cook welcomes people who feel overwhelmed by worry, stress or life changes. She writes plainly and listens carefully so clients can explain what they are facing. Liz is calm and direct, and she gives time for people to say what they need.
She has 12 years of counselling experience and holds BACP membership, which she uses to guide her day-to-day practice. Before qualifying as a counsellor she spent 22 years in social care supporting people with disabilities and their families.
Background and approach
That background shaped how she understands long-term illness, disability and caregiving stress. It also influences her work with grief, chronic health issues and the emotional strain carers often feel. Liz uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy alongside person-centred listening.
In sessions she helps people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and try practical ways of changing them. She also offers space to talk through feelings without pressure to perform or explain everything immediately. People come to her for help with anxiety, depression, stress, relationship and intimacy concerns, addictions, sleep and eating problems, anger and life transitions.
She also supports those dealing with trauma, abandonment issues, attachment difficulties and complex health-related emotional concerns. When someone first meets Liz she offers time to describe their situation and goals. Together they agree on what to try next, whether that is short-term work on specific symptoms or a longer conversation about life patterns.
Sessions can be by video, phone, live chat or text messaging.
How CBT and person-centred care work online
Elizabeth uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot patterns of thinking that make anxiety or low mood worse. CBT sessions involve identifying unhelpful thoughts and practising small behaviour changes to test new ways of coping; this approach can help with worry, sleep problems and low mood.She also draws on person-centred counselling, which focuses on listening and understanding a person’s experience. That style gives space for emotions, and it supports people who need time to find their own solutions rather than follow a fixed plan.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will ask about symptoms, goals and what feels most helpful, then agree together on methods to try. Some people prefer practical CBT tasks, others want longer reflective conversations, and many use a mixture of both.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions are arranged. Video calls are close to face-to-face work, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth or being on camera is difficult, and live chat or text messaging suits brief check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving or medical schedules and to continue work over weeks or months without travel.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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