About Hayley
Hayley Wilcock is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with five years of professional experience and BACP registration. She aims to make beginning therapy straightforward and non-intimidating, recognising that taking the first step takes courage. Hayley gives direct, down-to-earth support and values honesty and empathy in her work.
Her style is person-centred and integrative. She tailors sessions to each person, drawing on different approaches to meet practical needs. Many clients meet to talk through trauma, grief and challenges tied to the past, and Hayley works alongside them at a steady pace.
Background and approach
Hayley has lived experience of ADHD and includes that perspective in her practice. She offers practical coping strategies, psychoeducation, and help organising thoughts and routines. Neurodiversity is met without judgement, whether someone has a diagnosis or is still exploring it.
She also supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship issues, depression, addictions and problems with sleep, eating or self-esteem. Hayley helps people facing major life changes, career questions, parenting pressures and compassion fatigue. Sessions blend talking with body-aware methods when helpful, using somatic and mindfulness ideas alongside cognitive and psychodynamic elements.
The focus is on what feels useful for the person in front of her, with clear, reachable steps to try between meetings.
How different approaches are used in online therapy
Hayley draws on Somatic Therapy to gently connect physical sensations with emotions, helping people notice how stress or trauma shows up in the body and find simple ways to ease tension. Attachment-Based Therapy is used to look at patterns in relationships and understand how early connections shape current reactions, which can help with intimacy and communication issues.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavioural changes to improve mood and coping. These approaches are described and tried together, so the person and counsellor can decide what helps most. The therapist works collaboratively to choose techniques that fit the client’s goals and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat and text messaging to provide flexible access. This variety allows people to work in ways that suit their life, whether they prefer face-to-face conversation by video or the convenience of messaging. Online formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family and travel commitments, while still focusing on practical steps and body-aware practices that can be used between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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 counseling
- 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
- Licensed
- Languages
- English