About Hayley
Hayley Blacker is a BACP counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with three years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression and the after-effects of trauma and abuse. Hayley also supports those dealing with relationship strains, grief and life changes.
She aims to make the first step feel achievable for people who are unsure about beginning therapy. Hayley creates a calm, non-judgemental space where clients can speak honestly about difficult feelings.
Background and approach
She listens for patterns in relationships and past experiences that affect present-day choices. Sessions are conversational and grounded in what matters most to each person. Her approach draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early bonds shape current reactions.
She uses client-centred techniques to keep the person's goals central. Emotionally-focused and psychodynamic ideas help uncover feelings beneath day-to-day problems. Hayley also brings somatic awareness into sessions when physical sensations link to emotions.
This can help when anxiety or trauma shows up in the body as well as the mind. She works at a pace each person finds manageable. People come to Hayley for many concerns, including phobias, sleep and eating difficulties, ADHD, intimacy and sexual concerns, and career stress.
She aims to support practical steps alongside emotional understanding. If someone is ready to start, Hayley helps with clear next steps to arrange sessions.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Hayley draws on attachment-based therapy to explore how early relationships shape current emotions and responses. This approach can help people understand patterns in closeness, trust and fear of rejection. She also uses client-centred methods that keep the person’s goals at the heart of the work, offering a respectful, non-directive space for people to talk through what matters to them.Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) features in her work as well, helping people identify and work with core feelings that drive behaviour. EFT can be useful when worries or relationship tensions feel stuck and hard to shift. Hayley adapts these approaches together so the work fits each person rather than using a one-size-fits-all method.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Hayley will talk with clients about their needs, goals and preferences and choose methods together. That collaborative planning helps set clear aims and a pace that suits the individual.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a busy day. Live chat or messaging can work for brief check-ins, ongoing reflection, or when writing feels easier than talking. These options give flexibility for different schedules and communication styles, and allow people to continue therapy from wherever they are located.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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