About Kirsten
Kirsten Cook is a BACP-registered counsellor based in the United Kingdom. She has four years of counselling experience and a long background supporting young adults with behavioural and learning difficulties. Kirsten aims to be warm, approachable and non-judgemental.
She focuses on helping people feel heard and less alone. Kirsten uses a person-centred, integrative style that adapts to each person. She listens first, then gently challenges unhelpful patterns.
Sessions tend to focus on practical ways to cope with stress, anxiety, depression and life changes.
How Kirsten works
She also works with grief, trauma and abuse, addictions and relationship and intimacy concerns. Her practice pays attention to attachment and how early relationships shape current behaviour and feelings. She can also support people dealing with parenting strain, caregiver stress, body image and eating concerns.
Additional areas she has worked with include ADHD, communication problems, codependency and separation or divorce. Kirsten draws on psychodynamic and Jungian ideas when it helps a person make sense of recurring themes in their life. That can be useful for people wanting to understand patterns and their emotional roots.
She balances this with practical, person-led work so sessions remain grounded and relevant. People who choose Kirsten often want a calm presence and straightforward support while they navigate hard times. She aims to sit alongside clients in difficult moments and help them build small steps toward change.
Sessions are conducted in English and are offered online by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging.
Kirsten lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Kirsten works with
The areas below are the ones Kirsten selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Kirsten's approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape feelings and connection. Online sessions can help people explore patterns of trust, closeness and distance and find new ways of relating to others.Client-Centred Therapy places the person at the heart of the work. The counsellor offers empathic, non-judgemental listening and follows the client's pace so they can find their own solutions to stress, anxiety, grief and life changes.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Kirsten will work collaboratively to identify which methods suit a person's goals and needs. That might mean combining attachment ideas with person-centred listening and occasional psychodynamic reflection to make sense of recurring patterns.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter updates, reflective writing or people who prefer not to use audio. These options make it easier to fit counselling around work, caring duties and busy days, while keeping focus on what matters in the sessions.
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