About Dabney
Dabney Hayes is a licensed counselor with more than 14 years of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, addiction, and trauma. She holds LPCC and LPC credentials and practices in North Carolina while working with clients remotely as well. Dabney focuses on helping people move past shame, low self-esteem, and perfectionism so they can live more confidently.
She uses a practical, client-centered style. Sessions focus on clear goals, skills practice, and understanding how thoughts and feelings influence behavior.
Background and approach
Dabney adapts techniques from cognitive behavioral approaches and mindfulness to fit each person’s situation. Dabney has worked in both individual and group formats over her career. She helps people handle everyday stressors such as parenting pressures, work or school challenges, relationship strain, grief, and sleep or eating concerns.
She also addresses longer-term patterns like attachment issues and codependency. Her approach is collaborative and straightforward. She listens without judgment and helps people try new ways of coping.
Practical exercises and short-term skill building are common parts of sessions. Dabney supports clients who want help with anger, career decisions, bipolar management, ADHD, or compassion fatigue. She also works with people navigating adoption and foster care issues, chronic illness, and body image concerns.
The goal is to reduce distress and increase confidence in everyday life.
Online approaches that fit your day-to-day life
Dabney often draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy when working online. ACT helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while accepting difficult thoughts and feelings. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and practicing concrete skills to change behaviors and improve mood.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. Dabney will work with each person to see which methods match their goals and preferences. She may combine elements from different approaches to create a plan that feels manageable and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and deeper interaction, phone sessions require less bandwidth, and live chat or text messaging suit quick check-ins or shorter reflections. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, family, or medical needs while keeping therapy focused on actionable skills and progress.
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What this therapist 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
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