About Dabney
Dabney Hayes is a licensed professional counselor with 14 years of clinical experience. She practices as an LPCC and LPC and focuses on helping people who feel stuck by shame, addiction, low self-esteem, or trauma. Her style is direct and compassionate.
She aims to help people find clarity and act on values that matter to them. She draws on several practical approaches to tailor sessions to each person. Sessions often include learning new ways to notice and respond to difficult thoughts and emotions.
Background and approach
She helps people build skills for managing anxiety, depression, anger, and stress related to work, school, or parenting. Dabney also supports people facing grief, relationship strain, intimacy concerns, or challenges tied to adoption, attachment, and caregiving. She works with issues ranging from eating and sleeping problems to chronic health stress and addiction.
Her background includes individual and group therapy settings over more than a decade. Her approach centers on listening without judgment and helping people set small, achievable goals. She mixes client-centered conversations with skill teaching from cognitive behavioral and acceptance-based methods.
Sessions are collaborative and focused on what’s most important to each client. People who want a warm, practical therapist often find her straightforward guidance useful. She helps clients notice patterns, practice new habits, and make gradual changes that fit their daily lives.
Dabney provides services from North Carolina and communicates in English.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Dabney often draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online sessions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and encourages action that aligns with personal values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like worry, low mood, or sleep problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Dabney will collaborate with each person to pick techniques that match their goals and day-to-day life. She tailors the mix of ACT, CBT, and client-centered conversation based on what the client needs and prefers, and checks in regularly to adjust the plan.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people have a full session with face-to-face interaction, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or video is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when someone prefers writing over speaking. These options make scheduling more flexible and help therapy fit into busy routines.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- 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
- Coaching
- 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
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- 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
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- 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
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- 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)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, Florida, Washington, Colorado, California, South Carolina
- Languages
- English