Dabney Hayes, LPCC, LPC

How Dabney’s Approaches Work Online

Existential therapy looks at meaning, choice, and how people make sense of difficult life events. It helps when someone feels stuck, uncertain, or disconnected from what matters to them. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on noticing thoughts without fighting them and taking steps toward valued goals; it often helps with anxiety, depression, and compulsive behaviors.

Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to the ways early relationships shape current patterns. It can help with trust, closeness, and repeated relationship problems by building awareness and new ways of connecting. Dabney draws from these approaches and from client-centered listening and cognitive behavioral tools to shape sessions around each person's needs.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will discuss goals and try methods that match a person's situation and preferences. That collaborative process helps clarify whether more focus on meaning, acceptance, skills, or attachment healing will be most useful.

Online sessions give flexibility - video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth or hands-free time matter, live chat for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep momentum between meetings.