About Hayley
Hayley Wilcock is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with five years of professional experience and a BACP accreditation. She focuses on creating a welcoming space where people can talk about difficult thoughts and feelings without judgment. Hayley encourages those who take the first step into therapy and treats that decision with respect.
Her approach is integrative and person-centred at its core. She blends different methods to suit each person's needs rather than using a single fixed style.
How Hayley works
Sessions tend to be practical and straightforward, with attention to what helps someone cope day to day. Hayley has particular experience with trauma, bereavement and the effects of past experiences. She also supports people navigating neurodiversity, including those with ADHD, offering coping strategies and psychoeducation.
That lived experience informs how she talks about symptoms and routines. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, addiction-related issues, eating and sleeping problems, grief, career pressures and compassion fatigue. Additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment issues, blended family challenges, body image, chronic illness and caregiver stress.
In sessions Hayley emphasises honesty, loyalty and empathy. She aims to be down-to-earth and non-judgemental while helping clients identify small, manageable steps. The work is collaborative, with practical strategies offered alongside space to reflect.
Hayley lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Hayley works with
The areas below are the ones Hayley selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches you might meet in online sessions
Hayley blends Attachment-Based work, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness approaches to meet practical needs. Attachment-Based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people understand repeating dynamics. It can be useful for communication problems, commitment issues and attachment concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns and trying small experiments to change them. It is often chosen for anxiety, low mood, sleep difficulties and coping with stress. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attentional practices and grounding techniques that support emotional regulation and reduce rumination.
Finding the right blend of approaches is part of the therapy process. The counsellor will work collaboratively to pick methods that match a person's goals, preferences and day-to-day realities. Clients are encouraged to give feedback so the plan can be adjusted as progress unfolds.
Online sessions can be arranged by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, offering practical flexibility. Video calls suit deeper conversations when face-to-face contact helps, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and messaging work well for quick check-ins, written reflection and people who prefer not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and health needs.
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