About Jay
Jay Cook is a counsellor who uses practical, person-focused approaches to help people through difficult times. He brings five years of experience and the NCPS credential. Jay works with clients in the United Kingdom and internationally, and conversations are held in English.
Jay draws on therapies such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy. He helps people manage stress and anxiety, cope with depression, address addictions, and work through relationship and intimacy challenges.
How Jay works
He also supports people facing parenting pressures, career changes, low self-esteem and ADHD-related difficulties. Sessions are collaborative and straightforward. Jay listens without judgement and helps clients notice patterns, practise new skills, and set small, realistic goals.
He uses clear techniques from well-known approaches so people can try ideas between sessions and measure what helps. He has experience supporting a wide range of concerns, including body image, codependency, trauma and abuse, and problems linked to commitment, communication and control.
Jay also works with issues connected to neurodiversity such as autism and Asperger Syndrome, and personality-related difficulties like avoidant or dependent traits. People can expect a calm, practical style that focuses on what they want to change. Jay helps break big problems into manageable steps and checks progress along the way.
For someone feeling stuck, he aims to make the path forward feel clearer and more achievable.
Jay lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Jay works with
The areas below are the ones Jay selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Practical therapy approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It is often used for anxiety, low mood and difficulties with motivation. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thought patterns and trying different behaviours to change feelings and outcomes. It suits stress, anxiety and depression by teaching specific coping skills. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns influence current connections and emotional responses, which can help with intimacy and relationship concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jay will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences and together pick or adapt methods that feel useful. That collaborative process makes it easier to test what helps and change course if necessary.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for people with busy lives. Video calls let conversations feel more like in-person sessions while keeping sessions flexible. Phone sessions are a good option when bandwidth is limited or a speaker-only check-in is preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins, written reflections and ongoing contact between talks. These options make therapy easier to fit around work, family and travel while keeping the focus on making steady progress.
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