Hayley Clayton
Compassionate, practical support for difficult life moments
About Hayley
Hayley Clayton is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who uses straightforward, compassionate support to help people navigate difficult times. She holds NCPS and has three years of professional experience working with a range of personal challenges. Hayley focuses on LGBT concerns, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, and issues around parenting.
She also helps people struggling with anxiety, stress, depression, anger and intimacy-related worries. Additional areas of attention include self-esteem, guilt and shame, isolation and building self-love.
Background and approach
Her practice draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, psychodynamic ideas, and trauma-focused work. In sessions she listens closely, asks practical questions, and helps people spot patterns that keep them stuck. Together with each person she shapes a plan that matches their needs and circumstances.
Hayley aims to be respectful and sensitive in every conversation. She offers a calm presence for people who are feeling overwhelmed or unsure where to start. The emphasis is on small, manageable steps rather than big, sudden changes.
She encourages anyone considering therapy to recognise their courage in reaching out. The first few sessions are used to understand the problem, set goals, and agree on how to proceed so people know what to expect.
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Hayley draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Trauma-Focused Therapy to guide online sessions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try practical changes in behaviour to ease anxiety or low mood. Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on understanding how past traumatic events affect current reactions and teaches ways to reduce distress and rebuild a sense of safety.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss your goals, preferences and the problems you want to address, then recommend which methods to try first. That plan is reviewed and adjusted as you go so the work stays useful and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers shorter check-ins during a busy day, and messaging lets people reflect in writing between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, family and daily life.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| 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
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
