Hayley Wilcock
Straightforward, person-centred counselling for complex issues
About Hayley
Hayley Wilcock is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with five years of professional experience and registration with the BACP - the British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists. She aims to make the first step into therapy feel manageable. Hayley creates a calm space where people can say what they are thinking and feeling without judgement.
Her practice is integrative with a person-centred core. That means she brings together different approaches and adapts them to each person’s needs rather than following one set method.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical ways to cope now while also looking at how past experiences shape present behaviour. Hayley has a particular interest in trauma, bereavement and neurodiversity. She is open about having ADHD herself and uses that lived experience to inform her work with autistic clients and people with attention differences.
She offers support that includes coping strategies and psychoeducation tailored to how someone thinks and processes information. People see Hayley for a wide range of issues, including stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, addictions, grief, eating and sleeping problems, career worries and compassion fatigue. She also works with attachment-related difficulties and long-term health or caregiving stress.
Her style is straightforward, warm and loyal. Hayley values honesty and practical progress, and she tends to combine talking, reflective work and simple, actionable tools so people can try things between sessions.
What Hayley works with
How Hayley works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Hayley commonly draws on attachment-based work to look at how early relationships affect current patterns, helping people notice and change how they relate to others. She also uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, a practical approach that helps spot unhelpful thoughts and try small behavioural changes to reduce anxiety and low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Hayley discusses goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, and then tailors methods collaboratively so sessions match a person’s needs and pace.
Online therapy with Hayley is offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video works well for deeper conversations, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and messaging lets someone reflect between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family or health commitments and to continue work when travel or other barriers make in-person meetings difficult.
| 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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
