About William
Dr. William Cook is a counsellor with 18 years of experience working in the United Kingdom. He uses a range of approaches to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma and relationship difficulties.
He speaks English, Spanish and French and accepts international clients for online work. William takes a straightforward, people-focused approach in sessions. He listens first, then helps clients set clear goals.
Practical strategies are offered alongside space to talk about painful events or difficult feelings.
How William works
Sessions aim to be steady and collaborative rather than rushed. His work covers a wide variety of concerns, including intimacy-related issues, grief, eating and sleeping problems, anger, self-esteem and career questions. He also supports people dealing with ADHD, bipolar disorder, compassion fatigue and the strain of caregiving.
Additional areas of focus include adoption and foster-care topics, attachment difficulties, body image and blended family challenges. William blends client-centred ways of working with approaches that look at thoughts, emotions and relationship patterns. That mix lets him offer hands-on coping tools as well as time to explore how past experiences shape current behaviour.
He can adapt sessions to each person’s needs and preferences. Outside his practice he has written about addiction and been involved in community counselling projects. He aims to be calm, clear and practical in sessions, helping people build skills that fit into everyday life.
William lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What William works with
The areas below are the ones William selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- 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
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | BACP, NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English, Spanish, French |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How his therapeutic approaches work online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current bonds. In plain terms it helps people understand trust, closeness and patterns that repeat in adult relationships. This work can be useful for intimacy problems, attachment issues and navigating blended family dynamics.Client-Centred Therapy places the person’s experience at the heart of sessions. The counsellor listens without judgement and follows the client’s pace, helping them find their own solutions. This approach suits people needing a steady, accepting space to reflect and make decisions.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour. It offers practical techniques for anxiety, depression, sleep or eating problems and some addictive behaviours by changing unhelpful thinking and building new routines.
Deciding which approach to use is part of the work. He will discuss options and try methods that match the client’s goals and preferences. That way the plan is developed together and adjusted as progress is made.
Online sessions make it easier to fit counselling into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that helps. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging offer shorter, written exchanges for day-to-day support and flexible contact between longer sessions. Registered or accredited professionals can offer these formats to make therapy more accessible and convenient.
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