Kirsten Cook, BACP

Kirsten Cook is a BACP counsellor in the United Kingdom with four years' experience as a counsellor and fifteen years working with young adults who have behavioural and learning differences. She helps people who are anxious, depressed, stressed, or coping with relationship and parenting concerns. Kirsten also supports people dealing with trauma, addiction, grief, and challenges around intimacy and self-esteem.

Her work is grounded in person-centred and integrative practice. That means conversations focus on the client's priorities and personal experience. She listens, reflects, and prompts questions that help people test their assumptions about themselves and others.

Kirsten adapts how she works to each person. Sessions can include looking at attachment patterns, exploring repeated relationship problems, or tracing how past events shape current choices. She has experience with sexual and domestic abuse, substance-related harm, and people who have felt abandoned or dissociated.

She names everyday problems plainly and offers steady, straightforward support. Practical topics she covers include setting boundaries, managing people-pleasing, coping with compassion fatigue, and addressing codependency patterns. She also works with eating and body image concerns, ADHD-related struggles, and career or life changes.

Kirsten aims to be approachable and non-judgemental. Her style is calm and measured, and she emphasises helping people find small, manageable steps forward. To begin, she asks a few practical questions and schedules an initial session to get a clearer sense of what would help next.

How attachment and person-centred approaches translate to online work