About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Cockram welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, relationship problems or life changes. She is a counsellor with 15 years' experience and works patiently to help people make sense of difficult moments. She keeps the conversation straightforward and practical so parents and busy people can follow along easily.
She draws on somatic ideas alongside talking therapies to help people notice how their body holds stress and anxiety. Sessions use a client-centred stance, which means the person leading the pace and choosing what feels most relevant.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy techniques are used when helpful to spot patterns of thinking and make small changes that reduce distress. Relationship concerns are a particular focus. She works with couples and individuals on communication, intimacy and trust, and also supports people facing separation and blended family challenges.
She also helps people cope with grief, trauma, addiction and long-term health issues with practical steps and steady support. Her background includes practice within social services and the NHS, alongside personal work. Elizabeth is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, which is noted as her credential.
She offers in-person and online formats suited to different routines. People who come to her can expect a calm, down-to-earth approach. Conversations aim to be direct, warm and focused on actions that fit everyday life.
The work is collaborative, with the person deciding the goals and pace.
Approaches that suit online work and everyday life
Elizabeth combines somatic-informed work with attachment-based and client-centred approaches to help people understand both body and relationship patterns. Somatic-informed work pays attention to bodily sensations and how stress shows up physically, which can help with anxiety, trauma and chronic tension. Attachment-based methods look at how early and current relationship patterns affect trust and closeness, useful for intimacy and communication issues. Client-centred counselling focuses on following the person's priorities and pace, creating space to talk through what matters most.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with the person to decide which methods feel most helpful based on goals and preferences. This collaborative planning means techniques can change over time as needs shift.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. These options let people fit sessions around family life, work and medical care without lengthy travel. They also make it easier to continue support during times of change, while keeping the focus on clear, manageable steps that suit everyday routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English