Hello, my name is Chdel Cooke.
I am a qualified counsellor (PG Dip. Couns.) and UKCP trainee in advanced clinical training in psychotherapy using Transactional Analysis and relational neuroscience.
I have extensive professional and personal experience working and living with people who are neurodivergient and their families.
In a nutshell….
I am a trauma informed therapist working in private practice.
I work with Individuals and Couples over the age of seventeen and run courses in Resilience Skills, Couples Commitment Preparation, and Couples Enrichment. For further information, please see the courses page.
Couples can be any two people who want to work on something together: siblings, parent and grownup child, friends, romantic partners, business partners, neighbours etc.
If you are considering a change in your life or need support to work out your feelings around something, I would be pleased to help you. I offer a non-judgmental, welcoming, confidential, empathetic space, and I look forward to meeting you there.
I work with people who are experiencing difficulty in areas
which include:
· Neurodivergence
· Anxiety
· Depression
· Bereavement
· Loss – e.g. loss of job, relationship, or opportunity
· Post diagnostic support
· Caring for/living with someone with extra needs
· Stress
· Workplace stress
· Communication and conflict
· Parenting support, including Shared Parenting situations after a breakup or divorce
· Religious trauma leading to spiritual crisis and identity
If you would like your future to be more productive, satisfying, healthy, and wholesome than your past, then congratulations! Entering therapy is an excellent investment to achieve your goal. Our past affects us, but it doesn't have to control us.
No matter our age or stage in life, through therapy, we can consider what brought us to this point - our past glories and failures, resources and hindrances. Through therapy we can decide to keep what is useful, nurturing and helpful and what we want to develop, and consider what negative thought patterns, behaviours and attitudes we might want to leave behind. The joy of being a human is that we can change and grow!
Whatever background you have come from, whatever you have experienced, it doesn't have to define you. By learning who you are and discovering how to grow in your journey to become your best self, you will enjoy life more.
I aim to support you to gain the skills to be your own best friend, live your life to the full and act with integrity, agency, autonomy, and congruency, in mind, body and spirit.
No matter what your start, you can finish strong.
It is my hope for you that you grow to be 'comfortable in your skin' and be able to say, "I am free to be me."
For a fuller description of what I offer, how I work and a bit about who I am, please explore the rest of the free to be me site. Thank you for coming to visit!
Best wishes,
Chdel
