Roseanna Cook, BACP

Roseanna Cook is a counsellor with 16 years' experience supporting people through anxiety, trauma, phobias, loss and addictions. She is a BACP Registered Member (MBACP). Roseanna offers a calm, warm approach and aims to make sessions feel straightforward and practical for people in the middle of difficult life changes.

Her work often focuses on long-term anxiety, intrusive thoughts and phobias such as emetophobia and travel fears. She also helps people facing bereavement, addiction, low self-esteem and burnout. Midlife transitions and identity questions feature among the life changes she supports.

Roseanna blends a few therapeutic approaches to suit each person’s needs. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and client-centred listening, along with mindfulness and motivational interviewing techniques. Sessions are collaborative and tailored to where someone is right now.

She has worked with many people over a wide range of issues, including relationship and family concerns, parenting strain, body image and chronic illness. Her background notes substantial hands-on experience and many counselling hours with clients who face trauma, grief and addiction.

Based in the United Kingdom, Roseanna works in English. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and scheduling follows according to the therapist’s availability. The site’s Start Therapy button begins the process.

Therapeutic approaches and how they help online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and on taking small steps towards a life that matters. It can be useful for long-term anxiety, intrusive thoughts and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and uses practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for phobias, anxiety and low mood. Client-Centred Therapy emphasises empathic listening and supporting people to find their own pace and direction in therapy.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and try techniques collaboratively to see what fits a person’s goals and preferences. That shared decision-making helps shape sessions over time rather than fixing one method up front.

The original biography does not list specific online or in-person formats, so please confirm the available session types before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also make sessions more practical when someone prefers not to be on camera or needs lower bandwidth options. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt these approaches to work well across different formats and help clients apply strategies in everyday life.