Jake Hook
Therapist for intimacy and identity concerns
About Jake
Jake Hook offers a calm, straightforward approach for people feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, relationship strain, sexual concerns, or changes in life direction. He focuses on what you want to do differently and on practical ways to cope with panic, stress, and difficult feelings. Jake presents as approachable and listens without judgement to help you find clearer thinking and steadier emotional ground.
He uses a mix of client-centred, existential, and psychodynamic ideas to shape sessions.
Background and approach
That means conversations focus on your experience, on the choices you face, and on patterns rooted in earlier relationships. Sessions move between short-term coping strategies and deeper work to understand where certain feelings come from. Jake trained on a BACP accredited Advanced Diploma in Integrative Humanistic Counselling and carries the BACP credential.
Before qualifying he volunteered for over five years with an LGBT+ helpline and with youth services, gaining experience with a wide range of concerns across ages. In practice he supports people dealing with anxiety, panic, depression, trauma, relationship and intimacy issues, sexual health and identity questions, addictions, career worries, and self-esteem problems.
He also works with attachment issues, kink and alternative sexual cultures, gender dysphoria, and concerns linked to HIV and sexual assault. Sessions are collaborative and paced to suit each person. Jake combines practical coping tools with thoughtful reflection so you can try new ways of relating and managing stress.
He works remotely with people in the United Kingdom and carries out continuing professional development and supervision as part of his practice.
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Sessions & fees
How Jake's Approaches Work Online
Client-Centred Therapy puts your experience at the heart of the sessions. The counsellor listens deeply, helps you name what matters, and follows your pace while offering support for anxiety, relationship concerns, and self-esteem issues.Existential Therapy looks at life choices and meaning. It helps when people feel stuck about identity, purpose, or major life changes by encouraging honest reflection and responsibility for decisions.
Psychodynamic ideas explore recurring patterns and relationships from earlier life stages. This can help uncover why certain fears or reactions repeat, which is useful for problems like attachment issues, trauma, or intimacy struggles.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will work with the client to try things out, check what helps, and adjust methods based on goals and preferences. Sessions can mix practical coping tools with deeper reflective work so the plan evolves over time.
Online sessions are offered by registered or accredited professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions work well when face-to-face conversation matters, phone calls use less bandwidth and suit shorter check-ins, live chat can be useful for real-time support without audio, and messaging lets people write through thoughts between scheduled talks. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, travel, or busy days.
| 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
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Eating disorders
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
