- Values-focused care
- Practical skills
- Nonjudgmental listening
About Dabney
Dabney Hayes is a licensed counselor who brings 14 years of practice to clients in North Carolina and beyond. She holds LPCC and LPC credentials and focuses on helping people who feel stuck by shame, addiction, grief, or long-running stress. Dabney aims to help people build steadier self-esteem and live more confidently and authentically.
She works in a straightforward, compassionate way. Sessions focus on practical steps people can try between meetings. Dabney listens without judgment and helps people notice how thoughts affect behavior, then practice new responses that fit their values.
Her background includes individual and group work across a wide range of concerns. She has supported people facing anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, parenting strain, compassion fatigue, and relationship or intimacy-related issues. Adoption and foster care concerns are listed among her additional focuses.
Dabney draws on several counseling methods to match what each person needs. She frequently uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy alongside attachment-based and client-centered approaches. The work often blends skills practice, values clarification, and attention to early relationships.
Therapy with her aims to be practical and goal-oriented while staying warm and respectful. People who want help with self-esteem, coping with life changes, ADHD, or grief may find a clear, steady approach. Prospective clients should use the site process to learn more and arrange a first session.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while handling difficult thoughts and feelings. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, grief, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning; it often includes homework and skill practice between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose or blend methods based on their goals, history, and comfort level. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions so they feel practical and relevant.
Confirm the current online session options before booking, as formats are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives - for example it can reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins during a work break, or remove the need to be on camera for every meeting. Licensed professionals can adapt ACT and CBT techniques to online work through guided exercises, values planning, and structured skill practice that people can try between sessions.
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Primary focus
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
14+ years
Credentials
North Carolina, Florida, Washington, Colorado, California, South Carolina
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she address?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, parenting strain, self-esteem, ADHD, and many related issues.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is warm and nonjudgmental with a practical focus. She emphasizes skills practice and values-based choices alongside empathic listening.
What is her professional background?
She has 14 years of experience working in individual and group settings and has supported a broad range of presenting problems.
Which credentials and region apply to her practice?
She holds LPCC and LPC credentials and is based in North Carolina.
Can sessions be conducted in languages other than English?
Sessions are offered in English.
Does she work with clients outside the United States?
International clients are accepted; confirm details during the intake process.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist arrangement; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What steps do I take to begin therapy?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.