About Dabney
Dabney Hayes is a licensed counselor with more than 14 years of experience. She practices from North Carolina and brings a calm, down-to-earth presence to sessions. Dabney focuses on helping people untangle shame, addiction, low self-esteem, trauma, grief, and everyday stressors so they can live with more ease and confidence.
Her work combines body-centered ideas with talk therapy. She draws on somatic approaches to help people notice how stress and emotions show up in the body.
Background and approach
She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-based ideas to help clients build new ways of relating to thoughts and close relationships. Sessions are conversation-focused and practical. Dabney listens without judgment and helps people identify small, realistic steps to reduce distress.
She offers tools for anxiety, depression, anger, sleep and eating concerns, and coping with major life changes. She has supported people through parenting challenges, caregiving strain, addiction, sexual and relationship concerns, identity issues including LGBT topics, and long-term medical or chronic pain issues. Her background includes work in both individual and group settings across the lifespan.
Dabney holds LPCC and LPC credentials and combines several therapy styles to match each person’s needs. She works collaboratively with clients to set goals and try approaches that fit their values and daily life.
How Dabney blends approaches for online care
Somatic work helps people notice where stress and emotion live in the body and learn gentle ways to shift physical tension or dysregulation; it can be useful for trauma, anxiety, chronic pain, and situations where talk alone feels incomplete. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice their thoughts without getting stuck and take actions that align with their values to create a more meaningful life. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connections and offers ways to build safer, more satisfying relationships and emotional balance.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals, try different techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps in real life. That partnership guides choices about which methods to emphasize and how to pace work together.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging to fit varied schedules and energy levels. These formats make it easier to keep continuity during life transitions, access care from different places, and practice new skills between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, Florida, Washington, Colorado, California, South Carolina
- Languages
- English