About Hazel
Hazel Vernon is a counsellor who focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress and life transitions. She offers steady support for those coping with grief, low self-esteem, relationship strain and work-related pressure. Her manner is practical and calm, aimed at making the first steps feel less daunting.
Hazel draws on twenty years of professional experience in the UK and holds BACP registration, which means she works within recognised professional standards.
Background and approach
She aims to create a welcoming space where clients can speak honestly about difficult feelings without fear of judgement. Conversations are grounded and straightforward, with attention to what matters most to each person. In sessions Hazel helps people untangle patterns that are getting in the way of daily life.
That can include exploring family patterns, attachment concerns, or issues such as sleep problems and compassion fatigue. She also supports people dealing with trauma, chronic health challenges, and questions of identity, including LGBT matters. Her approach is collaborative.
Hazel and the client set clear goals and try practical ways to improve coping and wellbeing. Work can include short-term problem solving or longer conversations about deeper issues, depending on what the person needs. Sessions are offered in English and conducted online through a mix of video, phone, chat or messaging.
Hazel aims to help people make steady progress, one small step at a time.
Practical approaches that suit online therapy
Hazel uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that translate well to online work. One approach focuses on identifying unhelpful thought and behaviour patterns and testing small changes in daily life to reduce anxiety and improve mood. This helps with stress, low mood and confidence issues. Another method centres on processing grief and difficult life events through structured conversations that make space for emotion while developing coping strategies. That approach supports people facing loss or major life transitions.Choosing the right way of working is part of the process. Hazel works together with each person to decide which approach fits their goals, preferences and pace. She adapts methods over time and checks in regularly to make sure the work feels useful and achievable.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual contact helps. Phone sessions are a good option when a quieter or less technical setup is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit short check-ins around work or family commitments and to reflect between sessions. These formats make it simpler for people across the UK to access consistent support without travelling.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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