About Hayley
Hayley Blacker is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with three years of professional experience and a BACP accreditation. She works with people who are struggling with stress and anxiety and those facing loss, grief or depression. Hayley aims to make the first step into therapy feel manageable and respectful of each person’s pace.
Hayley creates a calm space where thoughts and feelings can be shared without judgement. She listens closely and helps clients notice patterns that cause distress.
Background and approach
Conversations are practical and focused on what matters to the individual in front of her. Her approach draws on attachment-based ideas and emotionally-focused techniques to better understand relationships and emotional responses. She also uses client-centred principles so the work is shaped by the client’s goals and preferences.
Somatic and psychodynamic elements may be introduced when bodily experience or deeper life history are relevant. Sessions often aim to reduce the immediate weight of anxiety while building longer term coping strategies. Hayley supports people who are navigating career strain, parenting pressures, identity or intimacy concerns, and adjustments after trauma or loss.
She also works with issues such as addictions, sleep or eating worries, and compassion fatigue. Work with Hayley is collaborative and paced to the client. She helps people set small, achievable steps and reviews progress together.
For those unsure how to begin, she encourages taking one small step forward and will talk through practical next actions.
How Hayley’s approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-based work focuses on understanding how early relationships shape emotional responses today. Online sessions can explore these patterns and how they affect current relationships and feelings of insecurity.Client-centred therapy places the client’s goals and pace at the centre of the work. In remote sessions this means conversations are led by the person receiving support, with the counsellor following their priorities and helping them set practical steps.
Emotionally-focused ideas help name and work with strong feelings that come up in relationships and personal life. These methods can be used online to practice noticing feelings, trying new responses, and tracking change between sessions.
Finding the right way of working is part of the process. Hayley will discuss different approaches and help decide which methods fit best with the client’s needs, goals and preferences in a collaborative way.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier on the day, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging lets people reflect in writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, parenting, or travel without losing continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- 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
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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