Andrew Cooke

I’m Andrew, and 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 ten years, and have volunteered with mental health charities. I understand and respect the importance of trust and compassion in the bonds I form with both my clients and students. Core Process Psychotherapy is built on relationship, and I can help to explore how it is to safely 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 connections.

Core Process can be used to help with depression, anxiety, trauma, spiritual crises, relationship issues, or just an unnamed felt sense of unease or lostness. 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.

I have a background in music and the arts, so I enjoy working in the territories of creativity and imagination; I believe we are all creative in some way, even if we don’t feel it. I look for and embrace the humour and joy which I believe is inherent in humanity, both of which bring us home to warmth, compassion and connection.