Elizabeth Cockram
Warm, practical therapy for relationships and life change
About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Cockram offers calm, practical support for people facing relationship strain, anxiety, stress and big life changes. She speaks plainly and works with each person to find what helps in day-to-day life. Her approach suits people who want steady, collaborative help rather than quick fixes.
She trained and practised in the United Kingdom and brings 15 years of experience in public and personal settings. That background includes work with social services and the NHS, and many years running a independent practice.
Background and approach
Elizabeth is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, often shown as BACP. In sessions she focuses on how people relate to others and how past attachments shape current behaviour. She uses person-centred methods to create a respectful space where people can talk things through at their own pace.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is also part of her toolkit for tackling anxiety, low mood and unhelpful thinking patterns. She works with a wide range of concerns including relationship and intimacy problems, parenting and blended family issues, grief, trauma, addictions, eating and sleeping difficulties, bipolar and depression.
She also supports people dealing with abandonment, adoption and foster care matters, and those exploring kink and alternative sexual cultures. Elizabeth offers flexible session formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. International clients can be seen in English.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and arrange sessions according to availability.
What Elizabeth works with
How Elizabeth works
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Sessions & fees
Approach in online sessions and practical benefits
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape how people connect now. It can help when trust, closeness or repeated relationship patterns cause pain. Client-Centred Therapy places the person's experience at the heart of the work, offering a non-judgemental space to talk and make sense of feelings. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on noticing unhelpful thoughts and trying practical exercises to change mood and behaviour, which can be useful for anxiety and low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences and what feels most useful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made, keeping the person's priorities in view.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a fuller interaction helps. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be a simpler way to check in. Live chat and text-based messaging suit short updates, quieter check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring duties and travel, while keeping continuity between sessions.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- 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
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
