About Hayley
Hayley Damous uses a client-centred approach to help people feel heard and understood. She creates a calm space where thoughts and feelings can be shared without judgement. Hayley welcomes straightforward conversation about what is causing distress and what a person hopes to change.
She combines client-centred work with cognitive behavioural techniques to help people spot unhelpful thinking and try new responses. Mindfulness practices are introduced to reduce stress and improve sleep.
How Hayley works
Hayley also draws on existential and Jungian ideas when it helps people make sense of identity, meaning and past patterns. Hayley has four years of professional experience working in the United Kingdom. During that time she has supported people dealing with trauma and abuse, grief, addiction, anxiety and depression.
She also focuses on relationship strains, intimacy-related concerns, parenting difficulties and career stress. Sessions are practical and conversational. People can expect to talk through recent problems, identify small changes, and try exercises between meetings.
Hayley pays attention to what feels manageable and realistic for each person. She holds registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, shown as BACP. Therapy is offered in English and is available to people who live inside and outside the UK.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and sessions are scheduled to suit the person’s needs.
Hayley lists 7 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
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- 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
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Hayley’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centred therapy places the person’s perspective at the heart of sessions and focuses on listening, understanding and reflecting back what matters most. It helps when someone needs space to be heard and to work out their own goals.Cognitive behavioural therapy looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions and offers simple tools to test and change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, low mood, sleep problems and stress because it gives practical steps to try between sessions.
Mindfulness therapy teaches awareness of the present moment through short practices that reduce reactivity and rumination. These exercises can support better sleep and calmer responses to stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels helpful, then try methods that match those needs. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made as work progresses.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and more natural conversation. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins and need less bandwidth. Live chat and text can suit quick reflections, written exercises or people who prefer not to be on camera. These formats make scheduling easier and allow therapy to fit around work, caring commitments and travel.
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