Dabney Hayes, LPCC, LPC

Dabney Hayes is a licensed LPCC and LPC with 14 years of counseling experience. She focuses on helping people who struggle with shame, addiction, low self-esteem, trauma, grief, and everyday stressors. Dabney aims to help clients build more confidence and live in ways that feel authentic to them.

She uses a straightforward, client-centered approach that pulls from several methods. In sessions she helps people notice patterns, try new coping skills, and make concrete changes in day-to-day life. Dabney draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and attachment-based ideas to shape treatment.

Her work includes individual and group settings and covers a wide range of concerns. Those include anxiety, depression, parenting strain, relationship conflict, compassion fatigue, addiction, bipolar challenges, grief, and aging and geriatric issues among others. She also addresses issues like body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and adoption and foster care questions.

Dabney describes her approach as nonjudgmental and practical. She focuses on clear goals, skill building, and helping people make choices that match their values. Sessions are aimed at reducing distress and increasing everyday functioning.

Based in North Carolina, Dabney works with adults across many life stages and supports international clients as well. She asks people to complete a short matching questionnaire to begin, then schedule sessions according to availability.

How therapy approaches guide online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and clarifying what matters most so actions match values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical tools to change unhelpful patterns; it often helps with anxiety, depression, and insomnia. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationship patterns affect current connections and coping, which can help with intimacy, grief, and caregiver stress.

Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Dabney will work collaboratively to decide which methods fit a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. That conversation often begins in the first few sessions and can change as progress is made.

The original biography does not list specific online session formats, so please confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life by reducing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins during a work break, or offering sessions when in-person visits are difficult. Licensed professionals can adapt ACT, CBT, and attachment-based work to an online setting by teaching skills, guiding behavioral experiments, and supporting emotional processing across sessions.