Member Profile

Andrew Cooke

Graduate Core Process Psychotherapist

UKCP Number

Visit Website 07511424014
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Hi, I’m Andrew, a long-time musician, teacher, and now senior trainee psychotherapist on my path to accreditation. I’ve just graduated in mindfulness-based Core Process Psychotherapy at the Bristol-based Karuna Institute. I have been working in one-to-one capacities with adults and young adults for almost eleven years, and have volunteered with mental health charities.

I understand and respect the importance of trust and compassion in the bonds I have formed with both my clients and students. Core Process Psychotherapy is built on relationship, and I can help to explore how it is to sit with another, and find opportunities to heal and grow. I’m a naturally very open person, and I feel this helps me to forge strong, truthful connections. From my own history I believe that psychotherapy can be a challenging yet also a very exhilarating, radical and dynamic experience; the art of learning to live fully and inhabiting one’s potential.

My interest in psychotherapy training came from a desire to understand myself better, after experiencing my own hardship on my life’s journey. Through my own personal therapy, alongside my studies, I have experienced ways to challenge my own relationship patterns and ways of thinking, which I once believed were indelibly etched into my life since childhood. I now firmly hold confidence in talking therapy, where I believe healing relationships of significant value can be formed. I understand what difficulties and suffering life may conjure up for us, and that these obstacles may feel immovable at times.. yet there can always be ways to navigate them, and reclaim your noble path towards new ways of being.

Personally speaking, music is very important to me and I am still a working musician (in composition and education), and have a separate website for all my work here… I’m including this in my profile as I feel it is a defining part of who I am. There were times in my life where I was only able to express myself through this medium, yet my psychotherapy training has encouraged me to understand my relationship to my creativity; how sometimes I opened myself up through it, and other times hid myself behind it.

I’m Irish (from Dublin), have been in Bristol about eleven years, and am based centrally, living with no cats or dogs (sadly), but many, many instruments. In my free time I like to travel with my partner, watch lots of films, read lots of books, attempt to cook, and like walking anywhere there’s trees.

Areas of Expertise

  • Anger Management
  • Anxiety
  • Cultural Issues
  • Depression
  • Environmental/Climate Distress
  • Gender
  • Family-related Issues
  • Identity Problems
  • Neurodiversity
  • Neurodivergence [ADHD/Autism]
  • Obsessive Behaviours
  • Phobias
  • Post-Traumatic Stress
  • Race Issues
  • Relationships
  • Self-harm
  • Sexuality
  • Spirituality
  • Stress
  • Suicide
  • Trauma

When I work

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Location(s)

Works with

  • Adults

Session Type

  • In-Person
  • Online/Telephone

Cost

  • Concessions available
  • Trainee Psychotherapist
  • £50 per hour