Dabney Hayes
Compassionate clinician guiding practical change
LPCC, LPC North Carolina
- Experience
- 14 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Family, Trauma and abuse
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Languages
- English
About Dabney
Dabney Hayes is a licensed counselor with more than 14 years of clinical experience who focuses on helping people move past shame, addiction, trauma, grief, and persistent self-criticism.
Background and approach
She draws on a client-centered, integrative approach to support people who are struggling with anxiety, depression, relationship and family stress, parenting challenges, anger, and other life transitions. Her work emphasizes building healthier relationships with thoughts and feelings and encouraging more authentic, confident living.
In sessions she uses a blend of established methods, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), alongside attachment-focused work and skills from Dialectical Behavior Therapy when helpful. Dabney has provided therapy in individual and group settings and brings a nonjudgmental, compassionate stance to each client encounter.
She accepts international clients and practices from North Carolina as an LPCC and LPC, supporting people through a range of concerns from chronic stress and compassion fatigue to eating and sleep issues, ADHD, and codependency.
How Dabney's Approaches Translate to Online Therapy
Clients working with Dabney can expect practical, evidence-informed methods delivered in a collaborative online setting. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression; it often includes homework and skills practice between sessions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify values and build psychological flexibility by learning to accept difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to meaningful actions. Attachment-Based Therapy explores relational patterns and attachment needs to improve how clients relate to others and manage emotional wounds.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Dabney partners with each client to assess goals, preferences, and life context, then adapts techniques from these models to create a personalized plan. That collaborative process helps ensure therapy aligns with what the client hopes to change and how they prefer to work.
Online sessions offer flexibility for people juggling work, family, or geographic constraints. Video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging allow for real-time conversation or shorter check-ins when needed, making it easier to maintain continuity of care and practice new skills between appointments.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
14+ years
Licensed
North Carolina, Florida, Washington, Colorado, California, South Carolina
Languages
English