Counsellor profile
Elizabeth Cooper, BACP
United Kingdom
BACP counsellor - relationships and trauma
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- Credentials
- BACP
- Registration
- BACP, United Kingdom / 375337
- Experience
- 8 years
- Languages
- English
- Location
- United Kingdom
About
- attachment work
- emotion-focused tools
- skills and reflection
About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Cooper is a BACP counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with eight years' experience. She works with people who are struggling with relationships, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem issues, depression, anxiety and stress. She also supports those facing intimacy-related problems, codependency, eating and sleeping difficulties, and questions around identity and life purpose.
Elizabeth describes therapy as a relational process. She pays attention to early attachment patterns and how they shape adult ways of relating. In sessions she helps clients notice repeated behaviours and emotional reactions that feel stuck or unhelpful. The focus is on understanding those patterns rather than being judged for them.
Her background includes work across healthcare, education and charity settings, such as A&E, mental health services, bereavement counselling and domestic violence support. That experience informs the practical ways she talks about stress, loss and trauma. She also offers supervision for students and qualified counsellors.
Elizabeth uses a relational integrative approach that draws on several evidence-informed methods. She talks through how attachment, emotions and behaviour link together and introduces skills and perspectives that can be practised between sessions. Clients are invited into a reflective space where they can test new ways of relating to themselves and others.
She holds a BA (Hons) and a science degree in counselling, and a level 7 qualification in nursing and healthcare. Her practice follows the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) guidance and ethics. She encourages people to view counselling as a process rather than a quick fix.
How sessions work
How her approaches adapt to online work
Elizabeth uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based ideas in her practice. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings, choose what matters to them, and take small actions in line with their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and getting unstuck from unhelpful patterns.Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current ways of connecting. Sessions look at patterns of closeness and distance, helping people understand why they react in certain ways and try different relational responses. This approach often suits concerns about intimacy, codependency and trust.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. Elizabeth will talk with clients about their goals and preferences and then suggest approaches to try. That decision is collaborative and can change over time as new priorities emerge.
The original biography does not list explicit online session formats, so please confirm current options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit counselling into busy lives by removing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins and offering flexibility around work or caregiving schedules. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt exercises and emotion-focused work for remote sessions so people can practise skills between meetings.
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Experience
8+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Questions
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What kinds of problems does she help with?
She works with relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem, anxiety, depression and related concerns such as codependency and intimacy issues.
How does she approach therapy?
Her style is relational and integrative, combining attachment-focused work with emotion-focused and skills-based techniques to help people notice and change repeating patterns.
How much experience does she have?
She has eight years' experience working in counselling and psychotherapy across healthcare, education and charity settings.
Is she registered with a professional body in the UK?
She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, listed as BACP in her credentials and working under their guidelines.
Can I work with her if I live outside the UK?
Sessions are offered to international clients as stated in her profile and are conducted in English.
What session formats does she offer?
The original biography does not specify session formats. Please confirm current session options before booking.
How are fees handled?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time according to the service terms.
How do I arrange an initial session?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session through the platform.
Details come from information the counsellor supplied to BetterHelp. A registration can be checked with the body that issued it.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are not safe at home, use the crisis and helpline numbers.