Welcome to Justin Cooper’s practice!
A warm welcome to my website. My name is Justin Cooper, I am a native-English speaking therapist, counsellor and teacher with a practice in west Amsterdam. My services include hypnotherapy, relationship therapy, mindfulness, counselling, men's work, systemic constellation and workshops focusing on healing the wounds in our male and female energy. I also teach on various professional courses at the Academy of Psychodynamics.
Online sessions
It is possible to do online hypnotherapy and counselling sessions. I have actually been doing this for years for people living abroad with great success. Please click here for testimonials.
My personal vision
The way I work is both down to earth and practical and at the same time holistic and integrative. I strongly believe that every human being has a sort of self-healing ability, an inner source, with which we can restore the balance in ourselves and improve the quality of our lives. Just like learning to drive a car you can also learn to tap into your own inner resources.
Furthermore, I see my work as a 'wake-up call' which means helping you break through the layers of conditioned behaviour and fear so you can reconnect to what is really important to you and be true to yourself.
It's about following your heart with an open, expansive mind. This is where creativity and spirituality meet, where playfulness and curiosity are alive and fulfilment and purpose serve as an inner compass.
OWN, LOVE & HEAL it workshops
These workshops for women and men have different themes related to owning, loving and healing our male and female wounds. They are geared to releasing our amazing potential to live and embody grounded, empowered and heartfelt lives, where our male and female energy are in balance and serve one another. More info here.
Testimonials
My experiences in the sessions with Justin were intense and have created a big shift within myself. Justin tunes into what you are feeling and experiencing in a very intuitive way, he doesn’t follow strict guidelines. He genuinely listens, which is a quality not every therapist has. Thank you!
I would like to take the opportunity to thank you again for your help. My husband and I attended your therapy sessions over 3 years ago. We were trying to conceive & had been for 3 years previous, without success. Your hypnotherapy resulted in us successfully conceiving, only a month later! The day that I read the positive pregnancy test was one of the happiest moments of my life! That and of course the days of my sons’ births.I now have a second son who is nearly one year old. I will be forever grateful to you for helping us in this unique way. Bless you & I hope you are healthy & well. Thanks again!
Justin was the first person I confided in after years of private pain regarding my inability to feel comfortable with my sexuality, even in loving relationships. After struggling to be emotionally and physically able to have sexual intercourse, it remained an over-intense experience which often left me in tears. I felt unable to get in touch with my sexual desires, to express them or really enjoy my own sexuality. Hypnotherapy helped me to get to connect to this part of myself through which I started to build up a new solidarity with myself and put my own needs first. With this growing sense of self-worth and ability to articulate my needs, I started to learn to change or walk away from self-destructive situations and relationships. This was a healing and transformational process.
The sessions have had a huge impact on my life. I came to you struggling in the aftermath of a burnout feeling like my world had been turned upside down. I have been able to understand what was going on inside myself and how old behavioural patterns created the burnout. The work we did on my relationship with my parents has helped me find healthier and more effective ways of working, and most importantly, I have learned to take care of myself more. Thank you so much!
Your calming presence made me feel very much at ease. I didn’t expect to be able to open up in the way I did and even when I visited the pain inside I was surprised that I actually felt stronger as opposed to feeling weaker.
My search for the right therapist and therapy was a difficult one as I was not really sure what I needed. So when I went for my first session with Justin I did have my doubts. Fortunately, Justin was able to naturally put me at ease, with and without words. I felt I could trust him and without that I don’t think I would have been able to really open up. It’ is quite amazing how much has changed in myself and my life in the space of a couple of months. Thank you so much!
I promised I would update you with news over my achievements in life. You know I wanted to get out of my past job and find something more fulfilling. I had an important interview opportunity but just missed out… I then stopped the sessions with you because I felt stronger and more confident. I continued with my intention to succeed in that matter and I got it! Since 4 months already I have my dream job, with amazing conditions where I feel valued and considered. I couldn’t have dreamed of something better and I got it with your great help! In that respect I am very happy and I continue to try and apply everything I learned with you.
Thank you so much for guiding me through my subconscious issues, I wouldn’t have been able to have done without you. The way you work is very special, no other therapist has been able to understand and help me in the way that you have helped me. I’m wishing you all the best in your life.
Thanks so much for your help, I’m doing great! Haven’t had a cigarette since before our last session! I feel fantastically free!!!!!!The first thing I did was go to all my favorite spots and the hardest areas I loved to smoke before, to get the hardest part over with. I even booked myself a little holiday to test my strength to see if I seriously kicked it. The beach was another one of my favorite spots to smoke. I did it all and am happy to report I am no longer a smoker! Thank you so much
You brought me in a very deep state of relaxation which is still working through my body one day later. You really tuned in to how I was feeling. It felt extremely healing to give so much attention to the stress and tension in my body and also to myself. Thank you!
Men’s work group monthly sessions
To become a truly empowered man you need two things: Brotherhood to help you own and channel the positive power of your male energy and secondly, a true connection to your feelings and the holding capacity of your female energy. This is the essence of this men’s work group: The empowered and loving man. More info here.
My personal story
After graduating with a first class honours degree, I pursued a career in journalism and publishing and communications. Following several promotions I worked as Group Editor for a number of magazines until my lifestyle of deadlines, stress and a lot of travelling started to take its toll. With two slipped discs I would still drag myself to the office, I was really hard on myself and was scared to let people down and to come across as weak or needy. One day the straw that broke the camel’s back became reality for me.
A complicated operation was unavoidable and when I woke up from the anaesthetic, I had (temporary) paralysis in both legs. I fell into an acute depression and isolated myself from those I most needed. With a lot of soul-searching I was able to start dealing with my inner demons and get behind the steering wheel of my own life. An intensive period of rehabilitation followed in which I had to learn to walk again. This whole experience marked a major turning point in my life during which I became more interested in personal and spiritual development.
I have been working as a fully certified hypnotherapist since 2003 and find it both a privilege and a joy to be able to help guide people, both individually and as a couple, through challenging and difficult periods in their lives. I know what if feels like as I have had my own share of painful and difficult experiences.
I am also a fully certified mindfulness trainer and offer courses in mindfulness and self-compassion in both groups and on an individual basis in my own practice. This is not only something I love teaching it is also an integral part of my life. Furthermore, I also teach at the Dutch Academy for Psychodynamics.