Hayley Wilcock

Hayley Wilcock is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with five years of professional experience and BACP registration. She aims to make the first step into therapy feel manageable, offering a warm and straightforward welcome to anyone considering support. Hayley describes herself as loyal, honest and empathic, and she values the small changes clients make as real progress.

Her work is integrative with a person-centred core. That means she draws on several approaches to match the client’s needs while keeping the person’s experience central. Sessions focus on listening, making sense of difficult feelings, and finding practical ways to cope day to day.

Hayley has a particular interest in trauma, bereavement and neurodiversity. She lives with ADHD and uses that lived experience to inform how she explains coping tools and psychoeducation. She helps people develop routines, strategies and clearer thinking when attention and motivation are challenges.

People come to her for many issues including stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, depression, addiction concerns, grief and career-related strain. She also supports clients facing intimacy struggles, parenting stress, chronic health issues and body image worries. Her aim is to work at the client’s pace and tailor sessions to what feels useful.

Her style is down-to-earth and non-judgemental. Hayley combines practical strategies with time to reflect on how past experiences shape present life. She invites clients to explore what they value and then build small, steady changes that fit their everyday routines.

How therapy approaches and online sessions can fit your life

Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current connections. It helps people notice patterns in close relationships and try different ways of relating that feel safer and more fulfilling.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts, feelings and actions together. It teaches straightforward techniques to challenge unhelpful thinking and build manageable habits to reduce anxiety and low mood.

Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase awareness of present-moment experience. It can be useful for stress, rumination and coping with strong emotions.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Hayley works collaboratively to identify which methods feel useful and will adapt them to each person's goals and preferences. That means trying things and checking in to see what helps most.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the session formats available before booking as the biography does not list them. Online sessions can make it easier to fit counselling around work, childcare and daily commitments. They also let people choose quieter surroundings, avoid travel time, and use shorter or longer sessions when needed to suit practical schedules.