About David
David Hayden greets people with a calm, straightforward style. He helps adults who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, and low self-esteem. He also supports people facing relationship and career struggles.
David uses practical conversation to help a person find clearer options and small steps forward. David is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, practicing in Colorado with 18 years of experience. He adapts conversations and plans to each person's needs rather than using one fixed method.
How David works
He treats people with respect, sensitivity, and compassion while keeping goals in view. His work draws on techniques from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to reduce unhelpful thinking and to increase actions that match personal values. He also uses elements of the Gottman Method for relationship-focused work.
These approaches are used in simple, doable ways that people can apply between sessions. Typical sessions focus on practical problem solving, building coping skills, and strengthening motivation. David can help with sleep problems, anger, parenting stress, compassion fatigue, and transitions such as caregiving or career change.
He is experienced with issues related to adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric concerns, first responder and veteran issues, gender dysphoria, and HIV/AIDS. People meet with him by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging. He asks new clients to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions based on therapist availability.
Subscriptions for sessions can be canceled at any time.
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What David works with
The areas below are the ones David selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Colorado |
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Online support options
How David’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on moving toward what matters even when hard thoughts or feelings show up. It helps people tolerate discomfort and choose actions that reflect their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches skills to change unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors. The Gottman Method concentrates on communication and problem-solving skills for people wanting to improve relationship interactions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work and happens together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then try methods that fit the person’s life. That collaborative process makes it easier to adjust strategies as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls are good for a full face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging can fit quick check-ins or moments when a written update is easier. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and keep momentum between sessions.
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