Juliette Hayden, BACP

Juliette Hayden is a counsellor with 15 years of professional experience working in the UK. She holds a BSc (Hons) in Therapeutic Counselling and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). Juliette draws on a background in nursing and long experience supporting people through difficult life events.

She worked for many years in the NHS before training as a counsellor. That experience shaped her pragmatic approach and respect for each person's pace. She also volunteers with a UK charity supporting people affected by sexual trauma and domestic abuse, and at a local hospice supporting people with terminal diagnoses and their loved ones.

Juliette helps people with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem and depression. She also supports people facing relationship and intimacy issues, eating and sleeping problems, parenting strain, anger, and big life changes. She has a particular interest in compassion fatigue, ADHD, and the needs of carers of autistic children.

Having lived with chronic pain herself, Juliette understands the practical impact of long-term illness and pain on daily life and relationships. She uses that lived experience to help people explore coping strategies and the brain-body connection that can aid calm and resilience.

Her approach is integrative and adaptable. She blends attachment-based, client-centred, cognitive behavioural, existential and mindfulness ideas to suit each person. Sessions aim to be warm, non-judgemental and focused on what the person wants to change.

Juliette works with adults across a wide range of life challenges and aims to empower people to take manageable steps towards the life they want.

Therapeutic approaches and online care

Juliette uses client-centred work to help people feel heard and understood. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting and following the person's priorities so they can explore what matters most and build confidence.

She also draws on cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to help people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and try practical experiments that reduce anxiety or low mood. CBT is useful for specific problems such as sleep, worry or motivation. Mindfulness therapy is another strand she uses to help people develop simple attention and breathing practices that calm the body and reduce stress symptoms.

Finding the right blend of approaches is part of the therapy journey. Juliette will work collaboratively to choose and adapt methods based on the individual's goals, needs and preferences. Together they decide which strategies to try and review what helps over time.

Online therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging makes it easier to fit counselling into busy lives. Video sessions let people see facial cues and build rapport, phone work can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and messaging suits shorter check-ins or people who prefer not to be on camera. These options increase flexibility and make ongoing support easier to sustain.