Services: Qualifications, Training and Experience
“Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathic witness”. (Peter A. Levine)
Services
Adult Counselling/Psychotherapy
Adult Counselling can improve your mental health, and a qualified counsellor can help with low self-esteem, reduce stress…
Internet-based Counselling/Psychotherapy
Since COVID impacted us all, online counselling continues to help clients from all walks of life and around the world…
30-Minute Introductory Session
30-minute call by zoom or telephone (your preference) to discuss why you are seeking counselling at this time.
I offer face-to-face or Internet-based Counselling via Zoom to Adults.
As a Holistic Integrative Counsellor, I may include the following:
Trauma-Informed Therapy
Attachment Theory
Gestalt Therapy
Somatic Embodied Therapy
Mindfulness / Visualisation Techniques
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Psycho-Education
Compassionate Inquiry
Psychodynamic Theory
Inner Child Therapy
Transactional Analysis
Breathing Techniques
Creative Work
THERAPY CONTAINER AND HOW I WORK:
I offer 6 x weekly sessions, either in-person or online, and at the start of each session, you will be invited to bring whatever you want to explore in therapy. All aspects of you are welcome!
In the sixth session, you are welcome to continue with further open-ended sessions, or you may feel your journey is complete. This will look different for every client, as each is on their own unique healing journey.
I do not offer one-off sessions.
Adult Therapy
Adult Counselling and Psychotherapy can improve your mental health. Research has shown that talking to a qualified counsellor and psychotherapist can help with low self-esteem, deal with triggers from past trauma, help reduce stress, build better relationships and give you coping skills for stressful life events. However, getting the right counsellor can take time, and it is important to get the ‘right fit’ for the therapeutic relationship to develop and build trust.
For this reason, I offer a 30-minute initial consultation to discuss why you are seeking counselling a this time and whether we are the right fit to work together. This allocated time and space allows for us to meet and for you to ask any questions or concerns you may have.
I offer a Holistic Integrative Counselling model, which means using various approaches tailored to your needs, starting with a Client-Centred approach. This enables you to share your story in a safe space. I may draw on and include various tools and interventions as listed above, if that is helpful to you, but ultimately the space is for you to explore thoughts, feelings and behaviours (and patterns), in order to bring about healing and change.
My aim is to empower you to come to your own resolutions through self-awareness, and working at a pace that is comfortable for you. I offer a professional, safe and compassionate holding, human to human, within a confidential space. I encourage client autonomy and self-care. I often use psycho-education in the session, which can help you, the client, to understand what is going on at a deeper level, especially regarding the fight/flight/freeze response, which may be activating your brain and nervous system.
My therapy room is based in Les Amballes, St Peter Port, but I can access a room for wheelchair access if needed, but will need some time to organise this. Sessions are weekly for one hour and offered within a six week container initially. This offers a safe framework to begin with, where there is a commitment from both the therapist and the client. Clients can then decide whether to continue on a weekly or fortnightly basis, or prefer to end if they feel their journey is complete with me. The number of sessions a client requires will be different and unique for everyone, and we can discuss this when we meet for the initial meeting.
Internet-based Therapy
During the Covid pandemic, online counselling became a popular way of ‘doing’ therapy, giving clients the ability to still meet with their counsellor in a safe and confidential space. Online counselling continues to help clients from all walks of life and from around the world. For some, it saves on travel time, is more cost effective and can help clients feel safe and supported in their own homes.
I often work with clients online, using a secure video link (Zoom), as face-to-face counselling/psychotherapy may not be the right approach or convenient for some clients. Please contact me if you would prefer to receive therapy online. Please also consider these guidelines below before we meet.
- Ensure you have a safe and confidential space to talk freely, away from interruptions from family and pets.
- Do make sure you have a good internet connection.
- Set the camera (screen) at eye level and set your volume so you can hear clearly what is being said.
- Have a plan in place if someone comes to the door (i.e. postman, deliveries, friends).
- Wear comfortable and appropriate clothing.
- Have a glass of water and tea/coffee to hand.
- Have your phone to hand if I need to contact you if we lose an internet connection. However, during the session, I ask that your phone is on ‘silent’ to avoid being disturbed.
30-Minute Introductory Session
BOOK A 30-MINUTE CONSULTATION CALL
I offer a 30-minute call by zoom or telephone (your preference) to discuss why you are seeking counselling and psychotherapy at this time. It is a space to explore your intentions and needs, as well as offer us both the opportunity to see whether we can work together in a therapeutic relationship.
It will also give you an opportunity to ask any questions you may have regarding therapy.
Qualifications, Training & Experience
- Bachelor of Theology Degree: Accredited with Sydney College of Divinity (1999-2001).
- Diploma of Higher Education: (DipHE, level 5) in Integrative Counselling. Accredited with Middlesex University (2018-2021).
- Relationship and Couples Training: Relate UK/Guernsey (2021).
Currently: Alongside my private practice, I am also involved with the Guernsey Counselling Service (GCS), a local charity, seeing clients as a therapist (since 2019), as well as doing Risk Assessments of new clients.
Membership: .
- Registrant Member (MBACP) of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
- NCPS Accredited Member (MNCPS (Acc). of The National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society.
- Oxygen Insurance to cover public liability, professional indemnity and malpractice.
- ODPA / GDPR cover. for data protection.
- DBS Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Certificate.
Short Courses and Certificates:
- Currenly undergoing Supervision training.
- The Art of Breathwork – six week course (2026).
- Introduction to Family & Systemic Constellations (2026).
- Desires, Boundaries, Fears, Communication & Touch (2026).
- Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery: Somatic Movement & Polyvagal Techniques for Clinicians (2026).
- Introductory Training to Facilitating Breathwork (2026).
- Cert: Compassionate Inquiry (Suicide Attention) (2025).
- Cert: Trauma-Informed Coaching and Counselling (2025).
- Cert: Working with Involuntary Childlessness (2025).
- Cert: Narrative Therapy (2025).
- Cert: Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy (2025).
- Cert: When Siblings Wound (2025).
- Cert: Awakening Love (2025).
- Attended: A three day ‘shadow work’ workshop weekend (2025).
- Cert: In Trauma-Informed Coaching & Counselling (2024).
- Cert: Shadow Work – How to Heal and Integrate your Shadow Self (2024).
- Cert: Working with Spiritual Abuse (2023-2024).
- Cert: Floods of Tears, Rivers of Healing (2023).
- Cert: Understanding GDPR for Therapists (2023).
- Cert: Working with Couples: Sex, Arousal and Ageing, (2023).
- Cert: Childhood Sexual Abuse & Its Effects into Adulthood (2023).
- Cert: Playing Games in Relationships (2023).
- Cert: Assessing Risk in the Counselling Room (2023).
- Cert: 3 Ways to Work with the Inner Child (2022).
- Cert: Healing Sexual Trauma and Abuse (2022).
- Cert: Introduction In Womb and Birth Trauma for Counsellors (2022).
- Cert: Single-Session Therapy (2022).
- Cert: Shame – The Meaning of Shame in the Treatment of Trauma (2022).
- Cert: Resourcing the Inner Child using Creativity (2022).
- Cert: Shame, Sex and the Body (2022).
- Cert: Embracing Suicidal Parts: Using Internal Family Systems (IFS) to Heal Traumatic Wounds (2022).
- Cert: Men, Intimacy and Shame (2022).
- Cert: Healing Sexual Trauma and Abuse: Awakening through Breathwork (2022).
- Cert: Working with Loss and Grief (2021).
- Cert: Mental Health Awareness (2021).
- Cert: Child Protection and Safeguarding (2021).
- Cert: Suicidal Risk and Support (2021).
- Cert: Initial Assessment and Responding to Domestic Abuse (2021).
- Cert: Disordered Eating & Attachment (2021).
- Cert: Coaching for Counsellors (2020).
- Cert: Stage 1 and Stage 2 of the Trauma Recovery Focused Training Pathway and Self-regulation in Children (2020).
- Cert: Using Transactional Analysis Creatively in Counselling (2020).
- Cert: Online, Telephone and E-Counselling (2020).
- Cert: Working with Attachment Behaviour in the Counselling Room (2020).
- Cert: Working Creatively with the Inner Child in Counselling (2020).
- Cert: Using Drawing, Pictures & Fairy Tales in Counselling (2020).
- Cert: 5 Ways of Working with Nesting Dolls in Counselling (2020).
- Cert: Using Creative Arts Online (2020).
- Cert: Mental Health Awareness (2020).
- Cert: Neuroscience and the 3 Rs of Self (2020).
Testimonials
‘When I started my counseling with Hayley I was initially nervous and in a very flustered state of mind but knew I needed help. After the first session with Hayley I knew it was a safe space to offload and I could trust her with my feelings and thoughts. There was never any judgment. I had in total 12 sessions with Hayley, from feeling flustered, lost and disconnected to in control, calm, restored and balanced. Hayley gave me multiple tools and communication styles that I now use in everyday life and with this I can tackle anything life throws at me. Thank you Hayley!!’
“Hayley is a wonderful human being, who brings her expertise of listening and understanding of a situation. She is very adaptive to her patient’s needs and is flexible even if it means changes in agreed structured plan. Thank you Hayley for being a supportive Therapist.”
“I am so blessed to have found Hayley as my Therapist. Therapy is seen as a stigma within my close circle, I was very apprehensive about attending my first session. However, Hayley made our initial session a bliss. She was highly attentive to my needs and interjected when needed. I felt so safe in our conversation that I was able to talk freely for the first time in my life. Through this journey I was able to unearth one of my biggest issues that was hampering my relationships. With Hayley’s professional recommendation of a workshop (intervention), I was able to work on my issue and improve my relationship with my close circle and more importantly myself. Thank you so much Hayley, you have been a blessing for me”.
“Your help and counselling have been truly life-changing and really put me on a good path. A lot more to learn and develop in myself but I feel I’m well equipped, from all your help, to tackle this by myself now. I believe I’m in a good place to take steps by myself with the tools I have and awareness I have gained. I would like to say a huge thank you for your help. I wish you all the best and please keep up the work you do at helping people like myself”.
“I arrived on Hayley’s doorstep feeling broken. Having had a few years of dealing with some pretty tough issues I began to feel completely vulnerable and had lost my resilience.
After a few weeks of visiting Hayley in her cosy, safe environment I began to feel whole again. Hayley’s gently posed and astute questions and her knowledgeable explanations enabled me to process what I was feeling.
It is the first time I have had counselling, I come from the ‘Pull yourself Together’ generation, so I wasn’t sure what to expect. I won’t hesitate if I have an issues in the future. I would thoroughly recommend Hayley”.
(Client – with permission)
“Hayley is very insightful and allows you to systematically work through any issues you may have, how to understand where they come from and how to deal with them – using a variety of techniques that she checks you are comfortable with”.
“Hayley has helped me to share freely with no judgment and I feel like a huge weight of guilt and shame has lifted off from me.”
“Good practical sessions with a variety of techniques not just talking.”