Elizabeth Cooper

Telephone therapy only. Elizabeth Cooper offers a relational, integrative approach to psychotherapy and counselling, supporting individuals and couples through life’s challenges with warmth and a personalised focus.

She believes that early attachments and the patterns we learn for relating to ourselves and others shape much of our behaviour and emotional responses. By exploring those unconscious drivers and the connections between body and mind, she helps clients increase self-awareness, strengthen their relationship with themselves, and move toward emotional healing and personal growth.

Elizabeth is a BACP accredited relational integrative psychotherapist, well-being practitioner and supervisor. She holds a BA (Hons) and a Science degree in counselling, and a level 7 qualification in nursing/healthcare. Her work is underpinned by the Clarkson 5 relationship model and informed by psychodynamic, existential, humanistic and transpersonal approaches.

Her clinical background spans many healthcare and educational settings, including accident and emergency, surgery, mental health services, community health visiting, learning support, end-of-life care, social care, rehabilitation, schools and nurseries. She has also worked for many years at a domestic violence charity, a counselling charity for young people and a specialised bereavement counselling charity where she served as psychotherapist, supervisor and group facilitator.

In addition to private practice, Elizabeth works in partnership with Relational Counselling Tadworth and has provided psychotherapy for couples and individuals as well as counselling supervision for students and qualified counsellors and psychotherapists. She also has experience working with a wide range of concerns including relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem, depression, stress and anxiety, LGBT issues, family and intimacy-related problems, eating and sleeping difficulties, parenting, anger, career challenges, bipolar disorder, coping with life changes and compassion fatigue.

Therapy with Elizabeth is offered as a process rather than a quick fix. She aims to create a safe, non-judgemental environment, will not give prescriptive advice or “fix” someone, and works collaboratively so that the client’s own expertise and inner wisdom guide the way forward.