Hayley Wagner

May 2026 Cohort

Hayley (she/they) identifies as a queer, femme, able-bodied, white settler living and working on the ancestral and unceded territories of the Mi’kmaq peoples. She is a Master of Education in Counselling student at Acadia University, with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Dalhousie University. Hayley has experience working in a community mental health setting with young adults on their mental health recovery journeys. They believe that everyone already has what they need in them to heal and that healing occurs within relationships of all kinds.

Hayley’s counselling is rooted in a trauma-informed, queer-affirming, strengths-based, anti-oppressive lens. She draws from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Narrative Therapy, attachment, and parts-work. She is grounded in a relational approach, coming from a place of curiosity and empathy to better understand and support others.

In their free time, Hayley is often crocheting, reading fantasy books, watching nature documentaries, and testing gluten-free recipes. She loves to take walks outside meeting all the neighbourhood cats.