Hayden François , BACP
Integrative counsellor blending somatic and practical methods
About Hayden
Hayden François is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy difficulties, trauma and abuse, and a range of other concerns. He works with issues linked to self-esteem, grief, addictions, ADHD and identity matters including LGBT concerns. Hayden aims to make the first step easier for anyone considering therapy.
He uses an integrative style that blends somatic work, acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment perspectives, client-centred listening and cognitive behavioural techniques.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what feels most useful for the person in front of him rather than a fixed method. Hayden offers practical tools alongside reflective conversation. Hayden keeps sessions simple and direct.
He listens with respect and without judgement. He will help people develop coping strategies, learn to set boundaries and practise helpful responses to difficult feelings. His approach includes paying attention to bodily experience as well as thoughts and emotions.
That means checking how stress or anxiety shows up physically and using gentle ways to shift those patterns alongside talking work. Hayden has three years of professional experience and holds BACP registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. He offers work in English and can meet people from other countries when needed.
Getting started usually begins with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session.
How somatic and talking approaches work online
Somatic-informed work pays attention to the body's signals alongside thoughts and feelings, helping people notice how stress and anxiety appear physically and try gentle ways to shift those patterns. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people clarify what matters to them and learn simple skills to act toward those values even when difficult feelings appear. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current reactions and helps people build safer ways of relating and feeling regulated.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will discuss options with each person and together decide which methods fit the client's needs, goals and preferences. That collaborative planning means techniques can change over time as progress and priorities emerge.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions around work, family life or other commitments. They also let people use the same therapeutic approaches remotely, working on bodily awareness, values-based action and relationship patterns from wherever they are located.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English