Dabney Hayes

Dabney Hayes is a licensed counselor with 14 years of clinical experience. She helps people who struggle with shame, addiction, low self-esteem, trauma, grief, and everyday stress. Her approach aims to help clients live more confidently and authentically.

Dabney draws on a mix of well-known therapies to match each person's needs. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based work, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy when appropriate. Sessions focus on practical skills, new ways of relating to thoughts, and rebuilding a sense of self worth.

She has provided therapy in both individual and group settings. Her work includes addressing relationship problems, family conflict, parenting stress, anger, depression, anxiety, and school or work difficulties. Dabney also supports people dealing with addictions, compassion fatigue, and chronic illness concerns.

Dabney describes her style as welcoming, caring, and nonjudgmental. She listens closely and helps people set realistic goals. Conversations move toward concrete strategies for coping, healthier habits, and clearer values.

People who reach out can expect a collaborative process that combines practical tools with attention to personal history and attachment patterns. Dabney encourages steady progress and helps clients practice new skills between sessions. She works with adults across a wide range of life challenges and additional focus areas such as adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric issues, autism and Asperger syndrome, body image, and codependency.

How Dabney blends practical approaches for online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while learning new ways to relate to painful thoughts and feelings. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and problems where avoidance gets in the way. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns, which can help with anger, sleep, mood, and coping with life changes.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Dabney treats the choice as a collaboration, matching methods to a person's goals, history, and preferred pace. She will check in regularly and adjust techniques so the sessions stay helpful and relevant.

The profile does not specify which online session formats are offered, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins when time is tight, and reduce travel time. It also makes it possible to keep continuity of care across locations for those who move or travel. Licensed professionals adapt exercises and between-session practices to work well in remote appointments, helping clients build useful habits between meetings.