Benjamin Cook

Benjamin Cook is an author and practising cognitive behavioural therapist with the NHS. For the past several years he has been responsible for improving how services deliver self-guided CBT to the general public. This has involved improving access to treatment, advocating for digital therapy and working with the wider community towards reducing the stigma of mental health. Believing that therapeutic treatments need to take into account the social, economic and cultural realities of those they treat, he has constantly advocated for reflection and change on how therapy is conducted and what can be done to make therapy more inclusive. Born in the UK, he was educated at the University of St Andrews before beginning his career in East London. His practice emphasises empathy, compassion and self-realisation.