About Hayley
Hayley Clayton is a counsellor who uses a compassionate, person-centred way of working. She draws on simple, practical methods to help people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, grief or life changes. Her style is direct and warm, with a focus on clear steps you can try between sessions.
Hayley has three years of professional experience in the United Kingdom and holds the NCPS credential. She has helped people with a range of concerns including trauma and abuse, parenting pressures, and issues linked to LGBT identity.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with low self-esteem, anger, career uncertainty, and compassion fatigue. Sessions are shaped around what each person needs. Hayley adapts her use of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and psychodynamic ideas to fit practical goals.
She also uses trauma-focused work when past events keep affecting daily life. Conversations aim to increase understanding and find doable coping strategies. In therapy she will listen without judgement and work with you to set realistic, step-by-step goals.
That might mean testing small changes between sessions, learning ways to manage intense feelings, or talking through relationship and parenting worries. The emphasis is on making progress that feels manageable. Hayley invites people who are ready to try something different to begin a straightforward matching and scheduling process.
She communicates in plain language and keeps sessions focused on what will help you most right now.
Approaches and online therapy options
Hayley commonly draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Trauma-Focused Therapy to guide her online work. CBT focuses on spotting patterns of thinking and behaviour that keep anxiety and low mood active, and testing small changes to shift those patterns. Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on reducing the ongoing impact of past harmful events and building safer ways to cope with triggers.Choosing the right approach is something she works through together with each person. Conversations start with what you hope to change, what feels most pressing, and what methods suit you best. She adapts techniques and the pace to match your goals and preferences so the work feels collaborative and realistic.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls are useful for a closer face-to-face feel, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging suits shorter check-ins or people who prefer typing. These options help people fit therapy around work, family and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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