About Jay
Jay Cook is a counsellor who uses practical, conversational therapy to help people make steady progress. He has five years of experience and works with clients in the United Kingdom and internationally. Sessions are offered in English and Jay aims to create a calm, non-judgemental space to talk about what matters most to you.
He focuses on stress and anxiety as well as depression and motivation. He also helps with relationship concerns, issues related to being LGBT, addiction, self-esteem and intimacy-related worries.
Background and approach
Jay will listen to what you want to change and help you set clear, manageable steps. Jay blends approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy. That mix lets him match practical tools to the feelings and patterns a person brings to sessions.
He explains techniques plainly and practices them together with clients so they feel useful in daily life. Clients who are coping with major life changes, career decisions or parenting stresses will find a pragmatic focus in his work. He also addresses a wide range of additional concerns including trauma and abuse, ADHD, body image, codependency and communication problems.
Sessions aim to turn worries into small, concrete actions. Jay holds NCPS as a listed credential and has worked with people from many cultural backgrounds. His style is collaborative and respectful, centring the person’s own values and goals as the starting point for change.
How Jay’s approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that match their values. It is often used for anxiety, stress and feeling stuck. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. This can be helpful for anxiety, low mood and coping with life changes.Finding the right approach is a shared process. Jay will talk with you about your goals and try techniques together to see what fits. He adapts the methods to your needs and checks in about what works from session to session so you shape the plan alongside him.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and working through exercises together. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or suit people with limited bandwidth. Live chat and messaging let clients share thoughts between sessions and get ongoing practical support. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel, and let the practical work of therapy continue between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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