Elizabeth Cooper, BACP
Somatic-informed counsellor for relational and emotional healing
About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Cooper is a compassionate counsellor who helps people facing relationship strain, grief, anxiety and other life challenges. She focuses on building a trusting, straightforward connection so clients feel comfortable talking about painful issues. Her style is warm and practical, with attention to both feelings and the body.
Elizabeth often links past attachments and learned ways of relating to present-day patterns. She uses a somatic perspective alongside relational work to help clients notice how emotions show up in the body.
Background and approach
This helps people name reactions and make small, manageable changes in how they relate to themselves and others. Her background includes a BA (Hons) and a science degree in counselling, and she holds a BACP accreditation. Before moving into independent practice she worked across healthcare and community settings such as A&E, surgery, mental health, rehabilitation, schools and end-of-life care.
That range of experience contributes to a holistic view of wellbeing. Therapy with Elizabeth is tailored to each person. She draws on attachment-informed ideas, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy and client-centred ways of working.
Sessions focus on understanding patterns, developing self-awareness and learning practical coping skills. She also offers supervision and has experience facilitating groups. People can expect steady, patient support rather than quick fixes, and the work aims to build long-term emotional resilience.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Somatic-informed work pays attention to how feelings appear in the body. In online sessions this might mean gently noticing breath, posture or tension and linking those sensations to emotions and memories. It can help with trauma, anxiety and stress responses by making those signals easier to recognise and manage.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying values and taking small actions that matter. Online ACT sessions use mindful awareness and practical exercises to help people move towards what they care about despite difficult thoughts or feelings.
Finding the right blend of approaches is part of the therapy process. The therapist will work collaboratively to identify what fits your needs, goals and preferences. That means trying ideas, checking what helps, and adapting the plan together as you learn more about what works.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility through video calls, phone conversations, live chat and text messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments and to continue when travel or health make in-person appointments difficult. Many people also find that remote formats allow them to focus more easily on emotional work in a familiar environment.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English