About David
David Hayden is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Colorado who helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, addictions, anger, and low self-esteem. He welcomes direct conversations about relationship concerns, career struggles, grief, and depression. His tone is practical and respectful, with an emphasis on starting where the client is.
David uses simple, goal-focused work to help people build better coping skills and day-to-day routines. He adapts conversations and plans to each person's needs rather than following a single script.
Background and approach
Sessions often include clear steps to manage symptoms, small behavioral changes, and practice between meetings. Over 18 years of clinical work has given him experience across a wide range of concerns, including sleep problems, parenting strain, compassion fatigue, and challenges related to adoption or aging.
He also has experience with issues such as obsessions and compulsions, trauma and abuse, and some first responder and veteran-related concerns. His approach draws on methods like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to address thoughts, behaviors, and values. He also uses relationship-focused techniques aligned with the Gottman Method when conversations turn to partnership and communication patterns.
David aims to make starting therapy less intimidating. He helps people set realistic goals and tracks progress in straightforward ways. If you want practical help with daily coping, decision-making, or restoring balance, he offers an experienced, down-to-earth path forward.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small steps toward those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and changing behaviors through practical exercises and skill-building. The Gottman Method offers tools for improving communication and managing conflict when relationship issues are a focus.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and comfort level. That may mean combining elements from different approaches or adjusting techniques as progress is made.
Online therapy can make regular help easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls let people have a face-to-face conversation from wherever they are. Phone sessions can be a simpler check-in when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter, frequent exchanges for ongoing support between sessions. These options give flexibility for scheduling, quick follow-ups, and a way to stay connected while working on practical coping and relationship skills.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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