Hayley Blacker

Hayley Blacker is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with three years of professional experience and BACP accreditation. She focuses on creating an open space where people can say what they feel and think without fear of judgement. Hayley aims to make the first steps into therapy feel manageable and respectful of each person's pace.

Hayley supports people facing stress and anxiety, including work or life pressure. She also helps with depression, grief and recovery after trauma or abuse. Relationship and intimacy-related concerns are part of her work, along with issues around self-esteem and communication.

Her wider focus includes addiction, ADHD and challenges linked to body image, sleeping and eating. She has experience addressing caregiving strain, chronic illness and the emotional sides of adoption and foster care. Hayley is also familiar with attachment issues, autism and aspects of sexual expression such as kink and BDSM when these come up in sessions.

In sessions she builds a calm atmosphere and listens closely to what matters to each person. Conversations aim to clarify feelings, spot repeating patterns and find small steps that make daily life easier. The approach is practical and rooted in what the client wants to change.

Hayley offers counselling in English and accepts international clients. She works with people across many areas including career stress, compassion fatigue, bipolar mood concerns and coping with major life changes. To begin, a short questionnaire helps match people to her practice and schedule the first meeting.

How these approaches can work online

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early connections shape current relationships. It helps people understand patterns in attachments and improve how they relate to others. Client-Centred Therapy places the person at the heart of the work, with the counsellor offering acceptance and reflection to help people find their own answers. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people name and work through strong feelings to change difficult interaction patterns and increase emotional closeness.

Deciding which approach suits a person is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to identify goals, try different ways of working and adjust the approach as needed. This means sessions can shift to focus more on emotion, past patterns or present-day coping depending on what helps most.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so please confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can still make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, for example by reducing travel time, making shorter check-ins possible, or allowing quieter, more focused conversations when that helps. Many people find it simpler to keep therapy consistent when it can fit around work and other commitments.