Dabney Hayes is a licensed counselor who has spent over 14 years helping people navigate hard moments.
01About Dabney
Dabney Hayes is a licensed counselor who has spent over 14 years helping people navigate hard moments. She holds LPCC and LPC credentials and brings steady, practical support to those dealing with persistent stress, anxiety, grief, addiction, and related concerns. She focuses on clear, doable steps rather than jargon.
Sessions often center on understanding unhelpful patterns, learning new skills, and building small habits that add up over time. Dabney aims to help clients feel more confident and act in ways that match their values.
Background and approach
Her background includes work in both individual and group settings. That experience shaped a flexible, client-centered style that adapts to each person’s needs. She uses approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based work, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to shape the process.
Dabney often helps with family stress, parenting pressures, career strain, and relationship difficulties, alongside trauma, mood struggles, and compulsive behaviors. She also works with issues like body image, ADHD, caregiving stress, and chronic illness concerns. The aim is practical relief and clearer choices in day-to-day life.
In sessions she keeps the tone compassionate and nonjudgmental. People can expect straightforward conversation, skill practice, and collaborative goal setting. Her approach is to meet each person where they are and help them move toward the life they want.
02Credentials
- LCMHC (North Carolina)
- License 14628 · expires June 2026
- LMHC (Florida)
- License MH17976 · expires March 2027
- LMHC (Washington)
- License LH61246990 · expires April 2026
- LPC (Colorado)
- License 0016842 · expires August 2027
- LPCC (California)
- License 21269 · expires November 2027
- LPC (South Carolina)
- License 11130 · expires August 2027
- NPI
- 1265743801 · national provider identifier
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03Focus areas and approaches
Everything Dabney lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- Compassion fatigue
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Methods Dabney names
- 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
These are the methods Dabney names on their own professional profile. Naming an approach is not evidence of training or certification in it, and this directory checks no training records. Ask directly if it matters to you.
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04Online support
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that reflect what matters most. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and recurring unhelpful habits. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns from early relationships and how they affect current connections, which can aid work on trust, intimacy-related issues, and family stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to match methods to their goals and preferences. That may mean using ACT tools one week and skill-based CBT or DBT techniques the next, based on what helps most in real life.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals in formats that suit different needs. Video calls are useful for in-depth work and face-to-face interaction, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging work well for brief check-ins or when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep continuity during life transitions.
05Questions people ask
What concerns does Dabney commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addiction, grief, parenting and many related issues listed in her specialties.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is client-centered and practical, focusing on small, usable skills and clear steps rather than jargon.
How long has she been practicing?
She has 14 years of clinical experience providing individual and group therapy.
Where is she licensed and based?
She holds LPCC and LPC credentials and is based in North Carolina with licensure details including CA LPCC and CO LPC as listed.
Can I work with her if I live outside the United States?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients according to the practice policies.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be conducted via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs.
How are sessions billed?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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