Supporting You in Gaining Insight, Improving Self-Awareness and Creating Lasting Emotional Change

Compassionate Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Children, Adolescence and Adults, offering a calm and confidential space to help you uncover deep rooted patterns, gain lasting self-understanding, and create meaning emotional change.

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About Hayley Blacker

I’m a qualified Psychodynamic Psychotherapist & Counsellor (BA Hon, PGDip, MA & MBACP) specialising in Trauma and Looked-After Children. Based in Pitsea, Basildon, Essex.

My approach is Warm, Thoughtful, and Grounded in Creating a Safe Therapeutic Relationship where You can Feel Heard, Understood, and Supported. Together, We Gently Explore how Past Experiences may continue to Shape Your Present Emotions, Behaviours, and Relationships.

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Understanding Yourself Is One Of The Most Powerful Forms Of Healing.

Supporting You Through Every Step

I offer Psychodynamic Therapy tailored to your individual needs, offering a reflective, supportive space where we can make sense of emotional difficulties together and work towards deeper understanding and lasting change.

All Services

Understanding recurring emotional difficulties or relationship patterns

Exploring anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, grief, or trauma

Making sense of unconscious feelings and conflicts

Improving self-awareness and emotional resilience

Examining how early experiences influence present life

Supporting long-term personal growth and change

Short-term and long-term therapy available depending on your needs and goals.

Therapeutic Support for Every Stage of Life

I offer psychodynamic psychotherapy tailored to each individual’s emotional needs, experiences, and personal journey.

Children

Creating a safe, consistent relationship where the child can express themselves and gradually make sense of their inner world. Through play, creativity, and the therapeutic relationship, I aim to understand the emotional meaning behind the child’s behaviour and experiences.

Young People

Help young people make sense of emotional experiences that may feel confusing, overwhelming, or hard to talk about. The therapeutic relationship itself is central. Young people may test boundaries, withdraw, or struggle to trust, and these dynamics are understood as meaningful rather than ‘problems to fix’. Helping them to navigate identity, relationships, self-esteem and life transitions.

Adult

In therapy, you are supported to talk freely about your thoughts, feelings, relationships, and life experiences. The therapist listens closely not just to what is said, but also to patterns, emotions, and themes that emerge over time. Furthermore the therapist offers a consistent, reliable, and non-judgemental space where thoughts and feelings can be thought about together, rather than acted on or avoided.

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Client Experience

‘I wasn’t sure what to expect, but therapy gave me a space where I could talk honestly without feeling judged. It helped me understand my anxiety and where it was coming from, and I feel more confident managing things now’

Investing in Your Emotional Wellbeing

Therapy sessions are offered in a safe, confidential, and supportive environment, tailored to your individual needs.

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50-Minute Session

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Concessions Available

Reduced rates may be available for:

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Frequently Asked Questions

We’ve answered the most common questions to help you feel informed, supported, and confident.

What happens during the first session?

The first session will be an assessment session an opportunity for us to explore what has brought you to therapy, discuss concerns and family background.

Is therapy confidential?

Yes. Everything discussed during sessions remains confidential within professional and ethical guidelines.

How long will I need therapy for?

This varies from person to person. Some people benefit from short-term support, while others may prefer longer-term therapy.

Do you work with children and young people?

Yes. I offer psychodynamic therapy for children, adolescents, and young adults using age-appropriate therapeutic approaches.

Where are sessions held?

Sessions are held in Pitsea, Basildon, Essex in a calm and confidential private practice setting.

Providing compassionate psychodynamic psychotherapy for children, young people, and adults in a safe and confidential environment.

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Unit 3, Tuskite Business Park, Pitsea Hall Lane, Pitsea, Basildon, Essex, SS16 4UH