About Dabney
Dabney Hayes is a licensed counselor with 14 years of clinical experience. She holds LPCC and LPC credentials and practices in North Carolina. Dabney focuses on helping people who feel stuck by addressing the everyday pressures that get in the way of living well.
She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and struggles with addiction. Dabney also supports concerns like parenting stress, career challenges, sleep and eating issues, and self-esteem.
How Dabney works
Her work includes attention to issues connected to attachment, abandonment, and adoption or foster care experiences. Dabney blends several approaches to match what each person needs. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take small meaningful steps.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy offers ways to notice thoughts and change unhelpful patterns. Attachment-based ideas guide work on connection and trust. Sessions are straightforward and focused on practical change.
She offers listening without judgement and helps people try new skills between sessions. Goals are set together so progress is clear and doable. Dabney provides therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. International clients are accepted and all work is conducted in English.
Dabney lists 15 ways of working on the entry:
- 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
What Dabney works with
The areas below are the ones Dabney selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Registers | LPCC, LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
How Dabney's Approaches Work Online
Dabney draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy in online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people name what matters to them and take small steps toward those values, which can ease stuck patterns like avoidance or perfectionism. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on connection and trust, helping people understand how early relationships shape current reactions and working to build safer ways of relating.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Dabney treats the choice of methods as collaborative and will help clients decide what fits best based on goals and preferences. She might combine approaches and adjust methods as progress unfolds so sessions stay practical and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone work can be easier when bandwidth is limited or camera use is not wanted. Live chat and text messaging offer quick check-ins and brief coaching between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work, parenting, or travel schedules while keeping the focus on real change.
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