Jake Hook

Jake Hook is a counsellor who aims to help people facing relationship and identity struggles. He works with issues like anxiety, panic, low self-esteem, and challenges around sexuality and gender. Jake brings a calm, relational approach aimed at helping clients understand what is happening now and why it might be happening. He holds BACP, meaning he is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.

Jake uses a mix of humanistic and psychodynamic ideas to guide sessions. He focuses on building trust and looking at attachment patterns and old relationship scripts that shape behaviour today. This can include exploring how past hurts affect current relationships, intimacy, and communication.

His background includes volunteering for over five years with Switchboard, the LGBTQ+ helpline, and work with the Talkzone charity. He has experience supporting people across different ages and life stages, and with concerns such as trauma, sexual health, gender dysphoria, and addictions.

Jake aims to work at a pace that feels right for the client, combining creative, relational conversation with practical coping strategies for stress and panic. He also offers couples and relationship therapy focused on clearer communication and honest discussion between partners.

He keeps up continuing professional development and regular supervision as part of his BACP membership. Jake practises in the United Kingdom and runs sessions in English. If you want to explore relationship issues, sexuality, or managing anxiety, he encourages starting with a short questionnaire to match needs and schedule sessions.

How Jake's approaches shape online therapy

Client-Centred Therapy places the client's experience at the heart of the work, with the counsellor listening and reflecting back so clients can clarify feelings and choices; this helps with anxiety, self-esteem and relationship worries. Existential Therapy focuses on meaning, choice and responsibility, and can help people facing life changes, questions about identity, or a loss of purpose. Psychodynamic Therapy looks at patterns from past relationships and early attachments to understand recurring behaviour in present relationships and intimacy.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Jake will work together with each person to decide which ideas and techniques feel most helpful. That means sessions can move between talking about immediate coping skills and exploring deeper patterns, depending on what the client needs and prefers.

The biography does not specify exact session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, for example by reducing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins, or providing more flexible scheduling around work and family. Many people find talking remotely helps them stay consistent with therapy while managing day-to-day commitments.