About David
David Hayden is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Colorado with 18 years of experience. He helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, or struggles with motivation and self-esteem. He works with those facing addictions, anger, and relationship concerns.
He aims to create respectful, compassionate sessions that focus on practical steps. David adapts conversations and plans to fit each person’s situation. He uses straightforward methods to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and rebuild confidence.
Background and approach
Sessions often include talking through immediate problems, setting short-term goals, and practicing new ways of coping. He blends approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address thoughts and behaviors that keep people stuck. He also draws on the Gottman Method when relationship skills and communication need attention.
These approaches are used to help with everyday stressors and longer-term patterns alike. Over nearly two decades he has supported clients through life transitions such as career shifts, parenting stress, and end-of-life concerns. He also has experience with issues related to adoption, aging, first responder stress, gender dysphoria, and grief after loss.
That background helps him tailor practical strategies to different life contexts. David communicates plainly and focuses on small, doable changes. He encourages people to take gradual steps toward clearer thinking and steadier emotions.
Getting started often means one honest conversation about what feels most pressing right now.
How therapeutic approaches work online
David commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and to clarify values that guide everyday choices. ACT can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions.He also applies Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thinking and change behaviors that maintain problems. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and coping with compulsions. The Gottman Method is used when the focus is on relationship skills and communication to reduce conflict and rebuild trust.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to concerns, try techniques, and adjust methods based on what fits the client's goals and preferences. That collaborative process helps clarify which tools feel useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and working through skills. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into a busy day. Live chat and messaging are helpful for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options offer flexibility to match therapy to schedules and daily life.
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What this therapist 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
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