Hayley Blacker, BACP

Hayley Blacker is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with three years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship strains and grief. Hayley aims to make the first step into therapy feel manageable and respectful.

Hayley creates a space where clients can talk about difficult thoughts and feelings without fear of judgement. Sessions are conversational and paced to each person's needs. She listens for patterns in relationships and emotions, then helps clients try new ways of responding.

Her work draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current bonds. She also uses client-centred methods, which keep the person’s goals and experience at the centre of the work. Emotionally-Focused Therapy influences sessions that aim to name and shift painful emotional cycles.

Somatic and psychodynamic approaches are used where helpful to connect bodily sensations and deeper stories to present problems. These methods can support people coping with trauma, loss, low self-esteem, and ongoing stress. Hayley adapts tools to what each person finds useful.

Her manner is warm and practical, with short-term plans if someone wants focused change and longer work if deeper processing is needed. Hayley encourages small steps and clear goals so progress feels visible. She welcomes conversations about what a helpful pace looks like for each client.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationship patterns affect current bonds and emotional responses; online sessions use this to help people notice and change repeating cycles. Client-centred therapy keeps the person's goals central and relies on empathic listening and reflection to help people feel heard and understood during video or phone sessions. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps name and shift painful emotional interactions and can be effective when talking through moments of intense emotion or hurt.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Hayley will discuss different methods and check in about what feels most helpful. Together they will choose ways of working that match the client's aims, pace and comfort with online formats.

Online therapy offers practical benefits for people with busy or unpredictable schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when convenient. Phone sessions suit those who need lower bandwidth or prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, notes between sessions or when a written format feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into daily life and keep continuity between sessions.