Hayley Blacker, BACP

Hayley Blacker is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with three years of professional experience and BACP accreditation. She welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low mood or recent loss and offers a calm space to begin talking things through.

Hayley focuses on making clients feel heard. She aims to form a trusting relationship so people can say what is on their mind without judgment. She recognises that reaching out for help can be difficult and acknowledges the courage it takes to start.

In sessions she uses methods rooted in attachment work and emotion-focused therapy alongside client-centred and psychodynamic ideas. This means conversations often look at current feelings, early relationships, and patterns that repeat in everyday life. Somatic ideas are also used when people want to connect what their body is telling them with what they are feeling.

Hayley supports people dealing with a wide range of concerns including relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, intimacy issues, eating and sleeping problems, parenting strain, anger and self-esteem. She also works with people managing ADHD, bipolar challenges and compassion fatigue.

Her approach is practical and collaborative. She helps clients set small goals and notices progress along the way. If you want to explore what’s been happening and find clearer ways to cope, Hayley offers a steady, listening presence to help you get started.

Therapeutic approaches and how they work online

Hayley draws on attachment-based work to look at how early relationships shape current reactions and emotional patterns; this can help when people notice repeating difficulties in relationships and closeness. She also uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help identify and name powerful feelings and the needs beneath them, which can reduce conflict and deepen understanding in personal relationships.

Finding the right way of working is part of therapy. Hayley treats that choice as collaborative and will discuss which approaches match a person’s goals and preferences. Together you can try a practical focus one week and a more reflective or body-aware approach another week to see what helps.

The therapist’s biography does not list specific session formats, so please confirm current online options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit regular sessions around busy lives, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also allow people to access a therapist who uses attachment and emotion-focused methods even if they live far apart, and sessions can be adapted to suit how someone prefers to talk and reflect.