Kirsten Cook

Kirsten Cook is a counsellor who works from a client-centred approach. She aims to make therapy feel calm and approachable. Kirsten says the first step is often the hardest and she focuses on listening first. She uses her presence to help people feel less alone and more able to talk about difficult things.

She draws on four years of counselling experience and many years working with young adults who had behavioural and learning difficulties. That background informs how she adapts sessions to each person. She describes her style as non-judgemental, easygoing and steady, offering gentle challenge when it helps someone look at their reality differently.

Kirsten supports people dealing with stress, anxiety and depression. She also works with grief, trauma and abuse, addictions and intimacy-related issues. Practical life changes such as career stress, parenting strain and compassion fatigue are part of her work too.

Her additional focus includes attachment-related concerns, abandonment and codependency, as well as eating and body image issues. She has experience supporting victims of sexual, domestic and substance-related abuse and people managing dissociation or communication struggles.

She holds BACP as a credential and practises in the United Kingdom. Sessions are carried out in English. To start, people complete a short matching questionnaire and book according to the therapist's schedule.

How Kirsten's approaches shape online therapy