Dabney Hayes, LPCC, LPC
North Carolina · 14 years in practice
Dabney Hayes is a licensed counselor with 14 years of clinical experience.
License and registration
- LCMHC, North Carolina
- 14628 · expires June 2026
- LMHC, Florida
- MH17976 · expires March 2027
- LMHC, Washington
- LH61246990 · expires April 2026
- LPC, Colorado
- 0016842 · expires August 2027
- LPCC, California
- 21269 · expires November 2027
- LPC, South Carolina
- 11130 · expires August 2027
- NPI
- 1265743801 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 14
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Dabney
Dabney Hayes is a licensed counselor with 14 years of clinical experience. She practices as an LPCC and LPC and works with people facing common life struggles. Her approach aims to help clients build steadier daily routines and better emotional coping skills.
Dabney focuses on issues such as stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addiction, and compassion fatigue. She also helps with parenting challenges, grief, intimacy concerns, eating and sleeping problems, and career or life transitions.
Background and approach
People who worry about self-esteem, perfectionism, or persistent shame may find her approach practical and direct. Her background includes work in individual and group settings, giving her experience with a range of client needs and formats. Dabney uses a client-centered, integrative style that borrows techniques from cognitive approaches, acceptance-based methods, and emotion-focused work.
She aims to keep sessions understandable and actionable so clients can try things between meetings. In sessions she pays attention to attachment patterns and how early relationships shape current struggles. She also teaches concrete behavior tools drawn from cognitive and dialectical methods to help manage intense emotions and make steady changes.
Her goal is to support people as they build more meaningful routines and relationships. Dabney practices in North Carolina and offers work that is practical and compassionate. She speaks English and accepts international clients.
Her experience and steady presence are meant to help people navigate difficult moments and find clearer next steps.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Dabney lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- 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 Dabney names
- 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
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. This approach can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions where avoiding discomfort has become limiting.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and emotions. It helps people identify patterns of closeness and distance and practice different ways of relating that feel safer and more effective.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Dabney will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, concerns, and everyday routine. She adjusts interventions over time based on what helps most, so therapy remains practical and focused on real-life change.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful when visual connection matters, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging helps people process thoughts between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while still working with licensed professionals.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does she commonly address?
Dabney helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, parenting, relationship and intimacy issues, eating and sleeping problems, and career or life changes.
How would you describe her therapy style?
She uses a client-centered, integrative style that blends acceptance, attachment work, cognitive techniques, and skills-based methods to create practical steps clients can try between sessions.
What is her clinical background?
She brings 14 years of experience providing therapy in both individual and group settings and has worked with a wide range of concerns and client needs.
Where is she based and what credentials does she hold?
She practices in North Carolina and holds the credentials LPCC and LPC, with prior licensure details recorded as CA LPCC and CO LPC.
In which languages are sessions offered?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be conducted via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different schedules and communication preferences.
How are sessions paid for and what does it cost?
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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