Veronica Hayes
Compassionate faith-informed counseling for everyday struggles
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed in
- New York
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Veronica
Veronica Hayes is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in New York. She brings three years of clinical experience and offers support for common difficulties like stress, anxiety, depression, substance use, and life transitions. She speaks English and uses a faith-informed perspective in her work.
Veronica writes about hope as a guiding idea and aims to encourage people toward better days. Her sessions start with listening closely to what feels most urgent.
Background and approach
She invites people to talk about what they are facing and identifies practical steps to reduce daily stress. Conversations often focus on coping strategies for mood challenges, substance concerns, or relationship strain. Veronica aims to make next steps simple and doable.
She also works with parenting and family matters, helping people name painful patterns and try different ways of responding. Therapy includes learning new ways to manage anger, worry, sleep, and eating concerns. The goal is clearer thinking and steadier routines rather than quick fixes.
Veronica uses evidence-based techniques to guide sessions in plain language. She blends a faith-informed outlook with standard therapeutic tools to fit each person’s values. Over time she helps people build skills they can use between meetings.
Practical arrangements include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Services involve a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to her availability.
Evidence-based approaches and online care that fit your life
Cognitive behavioral techniques focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing small habits. This approach helps with anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and managing day-to-day stress by teaching practical skills you can use between sessions.Motivational strategies aim to strengthen personal reasons for change and reduce resistance. These are useful for people working on substance use, lifestyle shifts, or stuck patterns that feel hard to change.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will ask about goals, values, and what feels most comfortable, then suggest methods that match each person. Clients collaborate on what to try and adjust methods as progress unfolds.
Online sessions make this work easier to fit into a busy life. Options include video calls, phone meetings, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can choose what feels most convenient. These formats allow regular check-ins and flexible scheduling while keeping the focus on practical tools and steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point