About David
David Hayden offers straightforward, dependable counseling for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and problems with motivation or addiction. He is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Colorado with 18 years of experience. He speaks English and aims to make first steps feel manageable for someone who is worried or overwhelmed.
He focuses on practical help for relationship strain, career difficulties, sleeping problems, and coping with life changes. Sessions emphasize respect, sensitivity, and compassion while keeping conversations focused on real goals.
Background and approach
He works with people who want to build confidence, manage anger, or address compulsive behaviors. David uses approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try new actions. He also draws on the Gottman Method for relationship-focused work when that fits a person's needs.
Treatment plans are tailored to each person's situation and priorities. Over nearly two decades he has helped people across a wide range of concerns, including trauma, grief, parenting stress, and issues related to adoption and foster care. He also has experience with first responder and veteran-related stress, hospice and end-of-life counseling, and gender dysphoria concerns.
Sessions are offered via video, phone, live chat, or text messages to fit different schedules and communication styles. David encourages people to take the first step and match with a therapist so they can begin working toward clearer next steps.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
David uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and replace them with more effective behaviors; CBT is often useful for anxiety, depression, and compulsive patterns. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, then choosing actions that match a person's values to move life forward. The Gottman Method is applied when relationship concerns are central, offering concrete skills for communication and conflict management.Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, past efforts, and preferences, then suggest methods that fit. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps the person make practical progress.
Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports brief updates between sessions. These formats give flexibility so people can keep consistent work toward their goals even with travel, work, or caregiving demands.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English