Hayley Blacker

Hayley Blacker is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with three years of professional experience and registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She aims to make the first step into therapy less daunting and encourages people who are thinking about help to feel respected and heard.

Her approach is warm and straightforward. She creates a calm space where people can talk about stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse. She also supports people dealing with relationship and intimacy-related problems, parenting strain, addictions, sleep and eating concerns, and career pressures.

Hayley uses ideas from attachment-based work and emotionally-focused methods to help people understand patterns in close relationships. She draws on client-centred and psychodynamic ideas to help clients make sense of their past and current reactions. Somatic elements may be used to help with the way emotions show up in the body.

She also works with people facing ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, compassion fatigue, and complex identity-related topics such as LGBT issues, body image and alternative sexual culture. Additional focuses include abandonment, adoption and foster care, attachment and communication problems, and caregiver stress.

Hayley aims to keep sessions practical. She helps people recognise repeated patterns, try small changes and build coping skills for everyday life. Her style is collaborative and down to earth, with attention to what feels manageable for each person.

How therapeutic approaches work online

Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in close relationships and helps people understand how early bonds shape reactions now; it can be useful for relationship strain, abandonment issues and attachment concerns. Client-centred therapy puts the person's experience at the centre, using empathic listening and reflection to help people clarify their own goals and make decisions. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) looks at how emotions shape interactions and can help people shift stuck patterns in relationships and intimacy.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences and what feels most useful. Together they will try methods that fit the person's day-to-day life and adjust the plan as progress is made.

The therapist's profile does not list specific session formats, so please confirm available formats before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions around work, family and travel. It can reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and suit people who prefer to speak from a familiar place. Registered or accredited professionals can help you choose whether online sessions fit your needs and circumstances.