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Hayley Wilcock, BACP
- Credentials
- BACP
- Experience
- 5 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesTrauma and abuseDepressionADHD
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Hayley Wilcock is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with five years of professional experience and a BACP registration. She aims to make the first step into therapy easier by offering a calm, non-judgemental space for people to talk about difficult thoughts and feelings.
Hayley describes herself as loyal, honest and empathetic, and values practical, down-to-earth work that helps people move forward. Her approach is integrative and person-centred at its heart.
Background and approach
That means she blends methods such as attachment-based work, psychodynamic thinking, mindfulness, somatic techniques and cognitive behavioural ideas to suit each person. Sessions are shaped around what an individual needs right now, not a fixed programme. Hayley has particular experience supporting people who have trauma, bereavement and a history from the past that still affects them today.
She also focuses on neurodiversity and ADHD, and offers psychoeducation alongside coping strategies and practical tools. Her own experience with ADHD informs a compassionate, understanding stance. Conversations tend to be straightforward and practical.
Hayley helps people identify patterns, try new coping skills and build small changes that make daily life easier. She balances listening with gentle challenge so people can explore difficult memories and feelings at a pace that suits them. Sessions are offered online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging.
Hayley works in English and does not accept international clients. To begin, clients use the site Start Therapy button and complete a short questionnaire before scheduling.
How Hayley’s approaches work online
Hayley commonly draws on attachment-based work to look at how early bonds shape current patterns. This approach helps when people notice repeating trust or closeness problems and want to understand the roots of those reactions.She also uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, which focuses on practical steps to change unhelpful thinking and behaviour. CBT is useful for tackling anxiety, low mood, sleep difficulties and unhelpful routines by testing out small behavioural experiments.
Finally, mindfulness techniques are used to build attention and reduce overwhelm. These exercises teach simple ways to slow down, notice thoughts and settle the body between difficult moments.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Hayley will talk through goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, then tailor methods collaboratively rather than following a one-size-fits-all plan.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat or text messaging to fit different lives. Video is good for a fuller face-to-face feel. Phone works well when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat or text messaging suits people who prefer written support or need more flexible, on-the-go contact. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and daily routines.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- 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 counselling
- 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
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
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