About Debbie
Debbie Hayes is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) based in Illinois with ten years of experience. She offers calm, practical support for people dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and relationship challenges. Her approach is warm and interactive and aims to help people take small steps toward change.
Debbie draws on several counseling styles to match each person's needs. She blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral tools and acceptance-based ideas to help people clarify values and shift unhelpful patterns.
Background and approach
Emotion-focused techniques are used when relationships and attachment concerns are central. Her background includes time as a caseworker and counselor, where she worked with a wide range of concerns from parenting strain to addiction and serious mental health conditions. Debbie has training in multicultural counseling and keeps up with continuing education to refine her practice.
She is open to integrating Christian-based perspectives when clients want that included and will discuss how faith can be part of therapy. Sessions focus on respect, sensitivity, and compassion without judgment, and plans are tailored to each person's goals. People often come for help with anxiety, self-esteem, career stress, or grief.
Debbie aims to support practical change through a mix of talking, behavior-focused strategies, and values work to help people build a more manageable and meaningful life.
How different approaches can work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, then commit to actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and feeling stuck in old patterns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify thinking and behavior patterns that keep problems going and teaches practical skills to change them, which often suits worry, depression, and behavioral habits. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on feelings and attachment needs to improve how people relate and connect when relationship issues or attachment concerns are involved.Deciding on an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Plans are adjusted over time when a different focus or technique would better support progress.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different lifestyles. Video is helpful for face-to-face conversation and reading nonverbal cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and messaging let people send thoughts between sessions and keep momentum without scheduling a full appointment. These options give flexibility for busy days, work breaks, or differing comfort with being on camera.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- 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
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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