About Fiona
Fiona Hazelden offers calm, practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, loss and life changes. She speaks plainly and focuses on small, steady steps that feel possible. Fiona aims to make sessions simple to follow and relevant to everyday life.
Fiona has 15 years of experience working with issues including trauma and abuse, low mood and depression, addiction and compassion fatigue. She also supports people dealing with relationship and intimacy-related worries, eating and sleeping problems, ADHD and career concerns.
How Fiona works
Fiona is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. In sessions she builds a plan around each person’s needs. Conversations look at what’s working now and what practical changes might help.
She can use short exercises, breathing or grounding techniques, and step-by-step coping strategies to manage strong feelings and reduce overwhelm. Fiona pays attention to how past experiences affect present choices and relationships. She also helps people address attachment, abandonment and communication issues, and challenges linked to adoption or foster care.
Work may include pacing exposure to difficult memories, improving day-to-day routines, or practising clearer boundaries. Therapy is presented as a collaborative process. Fiona invites honest feedback and adjusts the pace and focus as things change.
She encourages small experiments between sessions so new ways of coping can be tried and reviewed.
What Fiona works with
The areas below are the ones Fiona selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
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
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How evidence-based techniques work online
Fiona uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and clearer thinking. One approach involves grounding and breathing exercises to reduce anxiety and manage strong emotions; these are simple skills practised in session and repeated between meetings. Another focuses on pacing and processing difficult memories so trauma and abuse feel less overwhelming; this uses small, stepped exercises to build tolerance and control over upsetting moments.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Fiona will discuss what feels most useful and adapt methods to the person's goals and preferences. Decision-making is collaborative and reviewed as therapy progresses to make sure the plan fits and can be adjusted when needed.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls suit deeper conversations that benefit from face-to-face contact. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter setting is easier. Live chat and messaging let people check in between meetings, send short updates, or use written exercises when that feels more convenient. These options make therapy easier to fit around work, family and daily life.
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