Hayley Blacker
Gentle, practical therapy for everyday struggles
About Hayley
Hayley Blacker is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with three years of professional experience. She aims to make the first step into therapy less daunting by offering a calm, non-judgemental space where people can speak honestly about what is troubling them. Hayley focuses on common struggles such as stress, anxiety and depression, and on relationship and intimacy-related issues.
She also supports people coping with trauma and abuse, grief and loss, addiction concerns, and the emotional strain that follows major life changes.
Background and approach
Her work draws on attachment-based ideas and emotionally focused methods to help people understand how past experiences shape current relationships. She also uses client-centred and psychodynamic perspectives to follow what matters most to each person in the room. Somatic approaches are used when emotions show up in the body and movement or bodily awareness can help shift stuck patterns.
Sessions aim to be practical and grounded. Hayley listens first, then helps people name patterns and try small changes that feel manageable. She encourages self-compassion and clearer communication, and she supports people who are navigating parenting stress, career worries, or issues around identity and intimacy.
Hayley works in English and accepts international clients. Her BACP credential indicates registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. To start, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
What Hayley works with
How Hayley works
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Sessions & fees
How Hayley brings relational and body‑focused approaches online
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current feelings and patterns. Online this can help people notice repeating cycles in friendships and romantic partnerships and try different ways of responding.Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) focuses on the emotions that drive interactions. It helps people name core feelings, understand their purpose, and experiment with new ways of communicating that build safety and closeness.
Client-centred care keeps the person’s experience at the heart of the work. The therapist sits with what the client brings, follows their priorities and adapts the pace to fit their needs.
Choosing the right approach is part of the therapy process. Hayley will work collaboratively to identify which methods feel most helpful based on needs, goals and personal preferences. Together they will try out approaches and adjust as understanding grows.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different situations. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and reading non-verbal cues, phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is lower, chats or messaging work well for brief check-ins or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family commitments and travel.
| 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
- 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 counselling
- 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
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
