Hayden François
Practical counselling for stress and relationships
About Hayden
Hayden François helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression and relationship pain. He also supports those facing trauma, grief, addiction, self-esteem concerns and issues around intimacy. Hayden's approach includes attention to neurodiversity, eating and body-image difficulties, and the practical strains of parenting and career changes.
He works in a warm, respectful way and adapts what he does to each person. Hayden uses plain language and aims to make sessions clear and manageable.
Background and approach
He offers tools to cope, and time to talk through difficult feelings without judgement. Hayden draws on several approaches that suit different needs, including cognitive behavioural techniques and attachment-focused ideas. He blends methods so sessions feel relevant to what someone brings that week.
The mix helps people learn new ways of handling thoughts, emotions and relationships. He holds BACP, which indicates registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Hayden has three years of professional experience working with a broad range of concerns and life stages across the United Kingdom.
People meet him for focused work on problems such as chronic stress, burnout and compassion fatigue, as well as long-standing issues like abandonment, attachment or codependency. Sessions are intended to help people build practical coping skills and clearer ways of relating to themselves and others. Starting therapy can feel hard, and Hayden aims to make the process straightforward.
He meets people where they are and supports realistic change at a pace that suits each person.
What Hayden works with
How Hayden works
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Sessions & fees
How Hayden’s approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and then focus on values-based actions. It is useful for anxiety, low mood and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and teaches practical exercises to reduce distress and build new habits. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how past relationships shape current patterns and can help with trust, abandonment and intimacy issues.Finding the best approach is part of the work. Hayden will discuss different options and decide together which methods match a person’s goals and preferences. This makes sessions collaborative and responsive as needs evolve.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls let people meet face to face from different locations, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier when a quieter environment is needed. Live chat and messaging suit brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options are designed to increase flexibility and make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- 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
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- 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
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
