Dabney Hayes, LPCC, LPC
Compassionate therapy to rewrite life stories
Details
| Name | Dabney Hayes |
|---|---|
| Credentials | LPCC, LPC |
| Based in | North Carolina |
| Licensed in | North Carolina, Florida, Washington, Colorado, California, South Carolina |
| Session format | Online |
| Languages | English |
| Years in practice | 14 |
About Dabney
Dabney Hayes is a licensed counselor who brings 14 years of experience to her work. She practices in North Carolina and supports people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, addiction, grief, and related struggles. Dabney focuses on helping people build stronger self-worth and healthier patterns in daily life.
She prefers a straightforward, compassionate approach. Sessions focus on understanding the story a person tells about themselves and finding different ways to respond to painful thoughts and feelings.
Background and approach
She encourages practical steps you can try between sessions to test what helps. Dabney draws on Narrative approaches alongside Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. That mix helps people separate from unhelpful thoughts, build values-based action, and rewrite limiting life stories.
She uses a client-centered stance so the person sets the pace and goals. Her practice covers many concerns parents and adults bring, such as relationship strain, parenting stress, sleep and eating problems, mood struggles, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and workplace issues.
Dabney also works with more specific challenges like attachment wounds, adoption and foster care questions, chronic illness or caregiving stress, and body image or sexuality-related matters. Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients. Dabney has led both individual and group work over her career and aims to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space.
She helps people move from feeling stuck toward clearer choices and more confidence.
What this therapist works with
Her listing names Stress, Anxiety, Family conflicts, Trauma and abuse among the things Dabney works with, alongside the areas below.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- Compassion fatigue
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- 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
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches listed
- Narrative Therapy: Named in her listing among her approaches.
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): Listed by Dabney among the ways she works.
- Attachment-Based Therapy: Listed by Dabney among the ways she works.
- Client-Centered Therapy: Listed by Dabney among the ways she works.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Listed by Dabney among the ways she works.
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT): Listed by Dabney among the ways she works.
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT): Listed by Dabney among the ways she works.
- Existential Therapy: Listed by Dabney among the ways she works.
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): Listed by Dabney among the ways she works.
- Mindfulness Therapy: Listed by Dabney among the ways she works.
- Motivational Interviewing: Listed by Dabney among the ways she works.
- Psychodynamic Therapy: Listed by Dabney among the ways she works.
- Solution-Focused Therapy: Listed by Dabney among the ways she works.
- Somatic Therapy: Listed by Dabney among the ways she works.
- Trauma-Focused Therapy: Listed by Dabney among the ways she works.
- Training stated: This directory copies the approaches a therapist names and does not check training records. Ask Dabney directly how much of the work is narrative and what a session usually looks like.
Narrative Therapy in this listing
Narrative Therapy appears in this therapist's own list of approaches. That tells you it is part of how she works. It does not tell you how much of a session it shapes, and this directory does not check or rate training.
If a narrative approach is what you are looking for, it is worth asking Dabney directly how she uses it and what a session usually looks like.
Online session options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and still move toward what matters to them. It emphasizes values-based action and simple exercises to practice between sessions. Narrative Therapy looks at the stories people tell about themselves and helps them find different, more empowering ways to describe their lives and choices.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Dabney will listen to your goals and try methods that match your needs. She discusses progress and adjusts the plan together so you have input about what feels most helpful.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let you see nonverbal cues and run through deeper conversations. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a busy day. Live chat or text-based messaging supports short check-ins, real-time problem solving, or ongoing coaching between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping a steady path toward goals.
Common questions about this listing
What concerns does Dabney commonly address?
She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, parenting strain, relationship and intimacy issues, eating and sleeping problems, ADHD, bipolar, and career or life transitions.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her style is warm and direct. She combines Narrative thinking with ACT and CBT ideas and focuses on changing unhelpful patterns and testing small practical steps.
What is her professional background?
She has 14 years of clinical experience and has worked in both individual and group settings over her career.
Where is Dabney licensed and located?
She practices in North Carolina and holds the credentials LPCC and LPC with licensure noted as CA LPCC and CO LPC.
In which languages can sessions be held?
Sessions are offered in English, and she is available to work with international clients.
What session formats are offered?
Therapy is available via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
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