About Hayley
Hayley Blacker is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with three years of professional experience and a BACP accreditation. She aims to make the first step into therapy feel manageable. She greets each new person with straightforward, calm support.
Hayley creates a place where people can talk about hard things without being judged. She listens for patterns in relationships, mood and day-to-day stress. Sessions focus on helping people name what is happening and decide on small, practical steps forward.
How Hayley works
Her background includes work with anxiety, depression, trauma and grief. She also supports people dealing with addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, and parenting strain. Other areas of focus include body image, ADHD, chronic illness and caregiver stress.
Hayley draws on approaches that centre emotional connection and bodily experience. She uses attachment-based ideas to look at relationship patterns, client-centred ways to put the person’s experience first, and somatic techniques to notice how feelings show up in the body. She also brings psychodynamic ideas about past experiences that influence current behaviour.
Sessions are offered in English and can be arranged as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. International clients are accepted. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first appointment.
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
- 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
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-based work looks at how early connections shape current relationships. Online sessions let people talk through patterns in their close relationships and try out new ways of connecting. Client-centred therapy places the person's experience at the heart of each session. In a remote setting the counsellor listens without judgement and follows the client's pace to help them feel heard and understood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will explore your needs, goals and preferences together with you. They will suggest approaches and adapt them as you try things out, so therapy remains a collaborative process rather than a fixed plan.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual connection, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit easily into a short break. Live chat and text-based messaging support people who prefer writing or need a brief check-in. These options make it simpler to attend sessions around work, family or travel commitments, and to choose a format that suits how you like to communicate.
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