About Fiona
Fiona Hazelden is a counsellor with 15 years of practice in the United Kingdom. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem and other common life strains. Fiona aims to make the first step feel manageable and acknowledges that reaching out takes courage.
She works in a straightforward way and adapts conversations to each person's needs. Sessions are shaped around what someone wants to work on, whether that is coping with loss, improving confidence, or addressing past trauma.
Background and approach
Fiona uses approaches that are grounded in evidence and practical for everyday life. People can expect a calm, respectful space to talk through painful memories, unhelpful patterns, or current pressures at work and home. She pays attention to how difficulties affect daily routines, sleeping and eating, and helps people find small, workable changes.
Fiona also supports people dealing with relationship and intimacy-related struggles, addiction concerns, and long-term health or caregiving stress. She listens for attachment and abandonment themes and will gently help clients map how these affect current choices and feelings. Her practice is client-focused and collaborative.
Together with each person she agrees goals and practical steps to move forward. Fiona is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
Evidence-based approaches for online counselling
Fiona draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear, practical work. One approach helps people learn skills for managing anxiety and stress through short, structured exercises and behavioural changes. Another approach centres on talking through painful memories and misunderstandings to reduce their hold on day-to-day life and improve emotional regulation.Choosing the right method is part of therapy and happens together. Fiona will discuss options, try ideas in sessions, and adjust plans based on how a person responds. The aim is to find an approach that fits the individual's goals and feels manageable in daily life.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging allow shorter check-ins or more flexible timing for people with busy days. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, travel, caregiving or other commitments.
Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does this counsellor address?
How would you describe the therapeutic style?
What is Fiona's background and experience?
What credentials and location are listed?
Which languages and international arrangements are supported?
What formats are available for sessions?
How are costs handled?
How do I begin the process?
What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.