About Hayley
Hayley Wilcock is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with five years of professional experience and registration with the BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy). She aims to make the first step into therapy easier and meets people where they are. Hayley values honesty and loyalty and brings a warm, down-to-earth presence to sessions.
She works in an integrative way with a person-centred core. That means she listens first and uses different methods to match each person's needs.
Background and approach
Sessions are shaped around what the client brings, not a fixed formula. Hayley has particular experience supporting people with trauma, bereavement and issues from the past. She also offers help around stress, anxiety, depression, relationship concerns and coping with life changes.
Working with neurodiversity is important to her, and she draws on her own experience of ADHD when supporting people who are neurodivergent. Her approach combines talking, practical strategies and exploration of patterns that repeat in relationships and daily life. She uses techniques from cognitive behavioural work, attachment-focused thinking, mindfulness and body-focused methods when they fit the client's goals.
The focus is on small, manageable steps and clearer ways to cope. Hayley aims for a non-judgemental space where thoughts and feelings can be shared. She supports people to build coping strategies, understand themselves better, and make changes that feel realistic for their life.
Approaches to anxiety and trauma online
Hayley uses cognitive behavioural ideas to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try small experiments to change them. CBT can be useful for anxiety, low mood and patterns that keep problems going.She also draws on attachment-based thinking to look at how early relationship patterns influence current reactions. This approach helps when relationship themes, abandonment or attachment issues are a focus.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Hayley will discuss options and agree a plan with each person, adapting methods as needs, goals and preferences become clearer. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions so they feel meaningful and manageable.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat or text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins, people who process better in writing, or those who need flexible timing. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and day-to-day life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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