Dr Charlotte Cooper

Therapist Directory Listing Category: Psychotherapists and Counsellors

About the Therapist

About the therapist:

Between 2006 and 2008 I did my core training as a psychotherapist at the University of East London and volunteered at East London Out Project. I set up this practice in 2013.

I am an integrative therapist. This means:

I offer a bespoke service uniquely tailored to you
I don't follow one school of thought but blend many therapeutic
traditions*
I use evidence-based interventions
I work with the whole person and their social context, a humanistic
perspective

* Narrative, Recovery models, process model of change, person-centred counselling, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Radical Therapy, trauma-, compassion- and mindfulness-focussed work, and a handful of psychodynamic ideas to name a few.

I am influenced by lots of philosophical approaches including: feminism, The Social Model of Disability, punk, queer and trans theory, Health At Every Size, Mad Pride, the peace movement, decolonisation and intersectional anti-oppressive perspectives.

I'm a sociologist and that also informs how I view the work.

Alongside my clinical work, I’m interested in therapy culture and projects that explore and expand what therapy can be, find out more.

You don't have to be the same as me, but it might help to know where I'm coming from.

Sexual identity:

Bi- | Pansexual
Kink - BDSM
Lesbian
Other
Queer

Gender identity: I use another term

Gender history: As assigned at birth

Intersex: No

Neurodivergent: Yes

Personal pronouns: she/her

Qualifications - Links to websites:

PGDip Counselling and Psychotherapy, University of East London

MBACP (Accred) You can find me on the BACP Register under my name and number 34604.

Qualifications - Additional:

Award	Awarding body	Year of award
PhD Sociology	University of Limerick	2012
Postgraduate Certificate in Peace and Reconciliation Skills	Coventry University	2009
MA by Independent Study: Fat Liberation	University of East London	1994
BA(Hons) Drama	Aberystwyth University	1990

Experience and approach:

I aim to be inclusive and culturally sensitive and I welcome people from every kind of background.

People generally come to see me because they know I work within a social justice framework and won’t stigmatise their particular situation or identity. That could mean age, beliefs, chronic illness, citizenship status, class, disability, ethnicity, gender, involvement with sex work, HIV status, nationality, occupation, sexuality, size, race, relationship style, or because they have been in contact with mental health services.

I often see people new to therapy or who have had bad or mediocre experiences previously.

I affirm the self-determination of sex workers, trans and non-binary people, fat and neurodivergent people. I do not work within a rescue or assimilationist framework.

I work with all kinds of issues, everyone is different.

Some of the more common things that people often bring to my practice include: all the flavours of anxiety and depression, abuse, anger, anxiety, becoming disabled and navigating ableism, being socially marginalised and oppressed, being down in the dumps, bereavement, body-related issues, boredom, boundary-making, break-ups, bullying, burn-out and exhaustion or chronic fatigue, problems with community, confusion, coping with the world being on fire and coping with politics, depression, dealing with stigma, oppression and discrimination, difficulties in relating to people, fear, feelings of being different or of struggling, feeling upset or out of balance, free-floating sadness, problems with friends and family, feeling like a total failure, feeling stuck, gender feels, general emotional pain, getting older, homophobia, hopelessness, housing, identity issues, illness, internet nightmares, isolation, loneliness, loss, love, low self-esteem, money stuff, obsessions, problems with eating, racism, relationships, self-care, self-harm, sex, sex work, stress, suicidal feelings, transitions, trauma, work, unresolved problems, finding answers to the big philosophical questions about being alive, how to live well, wanting to find some meaning in life… and so on.

Got any questions? Drop me a line.

Approaches: