Elizabeth Cockram, BACP

Elizabeth Cockram is a UK-qualified counsellor with 15 years of professional experience supporting people across a wide range of life challenges. She has worked with Social Services supporting children and young people, has experience within the National Health Service using approaches such as cognitive behavioural therapy and humanistic integrative talking therapies, and runs a private practice alongside offering online therapy.

Her work spans individual and couples counselling, with a particular focus on relationship and family dynamics - from intimate partnerships to blended family issues and communication patterns. She also supports people managing stress, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive difficulties, phobias and major life adjustments. Elizabeth draws on a variety of talking-based approaches while keeping the person at the centre of the process, adapting methods to fit each client's needs.

Elizabeth is registered with the BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy), a professional body for counsellors and psychotherapists in the UK. She adopts an empathic, collaborative stance and aims to walk alongside clients as they explore challenges and build practical coping strategies.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Support

Elizabeth commonly draws on client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) in her practice. Client-centered therapy focuses on creating a respectful, nonjudgmental space where the therapist follows the client's lead, helping people explore feelings, values and choices in everyday life. CBT is a structured approach that looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and offers practical strategies for managing anxiety, low mood, phobias and unhelpful patterns.

She also uses attachment-based ideas to understand how early relationship patterns influence current difficulties, which can be particularly helpful in couple and family work and when addressing intimacy or abandonment concerns. These approaches are explained in accessible language and chosen to match the issue being addressed and the person's preferences.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Elizabeth works collaboratively with each person to identify which methods feel most helpful, adjusting techniques as goals and needs evolve. Online therapy offers practical benefits - video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging allow flexible scheduling, access for international clients and opportunities to continue work during life transitions. This format supports consistent engagement while fitting therapy into busy lives.