Juliette Hayden, BACP

Juliette Hayden is a UK-based counsellor with 15 years of professional experience. She holds a BSc (Hons) in Therapeutic Counselling and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She began her career as a nurse in 1993 and has worked in the NHS in a variety of roles before moving into counselling. Juliette also volunteers with a UK charity supporting victims of sexual trauma and domestic abuse, and at a hospice in Salisbury supporting people with terminal diagnoses and their loved ones.

Juliette works in an integrative way, drawing on several counselling approaches to fit each person's needs. She aims to create an open, non-judgemental space where thoughts and feelings can be shared. Sessions are collaborative and paced to what feels manageable for the person coming to therapy.

She has particular experience supporting people after trauma and abuse, and with grief and bereavement. Juliette also helps people struggling with anxiety, depression, stress, low self-esteem and motivation. Her practice includes work with relationship and intimacy-related concerns, parenting strain, and compassion fatigue.

Personal experience with chronic pain led her to focus on the brain-body connection and practical coping strategies for long-term illness and pain. She also has a special interest in supporting carers of autistic children, informed by her family experience.

Juliette adapts her approach to each person, using techniques from attachment-based, client-centred, cognitive behavioural, existential and mindfulness therapy as appropriate. Her aim is to help people build awareness, develop practical skills, and move towards the changes they want in their life.

How Juliette’s approaches translate to online work

Juliette uses attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships shape feelings and coping. This approach helps when worries link to trust, closeness or past hurt. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so the person feels heard and understood, which supports building confidence and self-worth during sessions.

Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is used to spot patterns in thoughts and actions and to practise small changes. CBT can be useful for anxiety, low mood and sleep or motivation problems because it offers clear steps people can try between sessions.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. Juliette will talk with the person about their goals, preferences and what feels most helpful. Planning is collaborative and can change as needs shift over time.

If you are considering online therapy, check which session types are offered before booking since the biography does not list formats. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, reduce travel, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. They also make it simpler to join from a location with quieter surroundings or when time is limited. Registered or accredited professionals and therapists generally adapt techniques like mindfulness exercises, CBT tasks and reflective conversation to work well in remote sessions.