Hayley Booker

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Registered Clinical Counsellor

(Hayley is currently accepting new clients with limited availability for September 2026)

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• Who I Work With

  • Teens

  • Young Adults

  • Adults

  • Couples

• Specialties

  Individual Therapy

  • PTSD, Trauma, and Complex-Trauma

  • Disordered Eating and Eating Disorders

  • Attachment Styles, Injury, and Activation

  • Boundary Exploration and Setting

  • Healing Unhealthy Relationship Patterns, Hypervigilance, and Codependency

  Couples Therapy

  • Relationship Concerns and Conflict Patterns

  • Infidelity and After the Affair

  • Emotional Intimacy and Deepening Connection

  • Intimacy

• Approach / Methods

  My training includes Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and Gottman Method informed relationship therapy, trauma-focused approaches, and somatic therapy. This allows me to support clients experiencing trauma, attachment wounds, relationship conflict, and nervous system dysregulation.

  Theoretical Orientation:

  • Emotion Focused Therapy

  • Gottman Therapy

  • Brainspotting

  • Somatic Therapy

  • Attachment-Based Therapy

  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

  • Dialectical Behavioural Therapy

Education

• Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology

• Bachelor of Arts in Child and Youth Care

• Advanced Diploma in Child and Youth Care

Certifications/Trainings

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) Level 1 & 2

• Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) Essentials

• Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) Crisis Survival: Helping Your Clients Tolerate Moments of Distress

• Emotion Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) Level 1 & 2

• The Gottman: Couples and Family Therapy Level 1 & 2

• Complex Trauma Certification Training Level 1 & 2

• Advanced Trauma Treatment Certification Program

• Brainspotting: A Neuroexperiential Model for Healing

• Eating Disorder Sensitive: Education for Mental Health Care Providers Certificate

• Understanding and Treating Eating Disorders Certificate

• Trauma, Attachment and Eating Disorders Certificate

• Certification in Somatic Therapy for Attachment Trauma

• Certified Somatic Therapy Foundations Practitioner

About Hayley

Hi, I’m Hayley, a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) and Certified Somatic Therapy Foundations Practitioner (CSTFP) based in North Vancouver, serving clients across the Lower Mainland and virtually throughout British Columbia.

I specialize in couples therapy, trauma therapy, eating disorder recovery, and emotional regulation. Many of the clients I work with feel stuck in painful relationship patterns, overwhelmed by intense emotions, constantly second-guessing themselves, and exhausted from trying to keep the peace, meet everyone else’s needs, or hold everything together. They often find themselves living in states of hypervigilance, codependency, people-pleasing, and emotional burnout, feeling disconnected from who they truly are and struggling to live a life that feels authentic and aligned with their values.

My work is grounded in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Attachment theory, Somatic therapy, and trauma-informed care. I help couples rebuild trust, improve communication, strengthen emotional connection, and break recurring cycles of conflict and disconnection. For individuals, I focus on healing trauma, developing nervous system regulation, improving relationships, and creating lasting emotional resilience.

I also work with clients who struggle with emotional dysregulation; those who feel emotions intensely, experience anxiety, overwhelm, relationship insecurity, or difficulty feeling safe in their own bodies. Together, we explore not only the thoughts behind these patterns but also how they are held in the nervous system and shaped by early attachment experiences.

I believe healing happens in the context of safety, connection, and collaboration. Therapy with me is active, compassionate, and tailored to your unique needs. My goal is not simply to help you cope, but to help you understand yourself more deeply, heal the underlying wounds driving your patterns, and build relationships, with yourself and others, that feel secure, authentic, and fulfilling.

It’s a privilege to walk alongside my clients as they move from survival toward connection, confidence, and lasting change.

What I Do in My Free Time

When I am not counselling or working behind the scenes of Soma, you can find me travelling a new country, or snuggling up with my four legged friend, Mortimer either reading a good book or binging a show!