Jessica Cooke, BACP

Jessica Cooke practises using person-centred care alongside structured methods such as cognitive behavioural techniques and solution-focused strategies. She draws on 16 years of experience in health-care settings and private practice to guide people through stress, anxiety, depression and life changes. Jessica is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and uses that framework to shape her work.

She aims to create a space where someone can talk through what is worrying them and start to make small changes. Sessions are shaped around each person's needs, so some people follow a steady, structured plan and others focus on exploring feelings and finding clearer direction. Jessica will help set goals and suggest ways to practise new skills between sessions.

Her practice covers a wide range of concerns including relationship and intimacy issues, self-esteem, grief, parenting strains, sleeping problems and compassion fatigue. She also helps with neurodiversity-related concerns, ageing and caregiver stress, and difficulties linked to work and life purpose. Jessica works with people affected by mood conditions such as bipolar, and with those managing ADHD and co-morbidity.

Therapy can sometimes be difficult and involve change, and Jessica will be honest about that process while offering steady support. She adapts her approach depending on what emerges in sessions and on a person's goals. Her aim is practical: to talk through what is happening and to find doable steps forward.

People meet Jessica through a short matching process and then arrange sessions in formats that suit them. She works in English and practices across the United Kingdom as a BACP professional.

Therapeutic approaches suited to online work

Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's experience, giving space to talk and helping people find their own solutions to problems. This approach is useful for concerns such as low self-esteem, grief and life transitions because it starts from the person's priorities.

Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and introduces practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. It works well for anxiety, depression, sleep problems and stress by offering tools people can practise between sessions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and then collaboratively choose methods that fit the person's needs. That conversation helps decide whether more exploratory, person-centred work or goal-focused CBT and solution-focused steps are best.

Online therapy offers flexibility and can be easier to fit around daily life. Video calls recreate much of a face-to-face session, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and text messaging allows ongoing reflection between appointments. These options help people access therapy in the way that fits their routine and energy levels.