- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Attachment focus
About Hailey
Hailey Beard is a Florida LMHC - Licensed Mental Health Counselor with five years of clinical experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, and depression, and also helps people navigate issues like abandonment, attachment concerns, codependency, and family of origin problems.
Her approach centers on listening and working alongside each person’s own strengths. She describes therapy as interactive and client-centered, avoiding stigmatizing labels and adapting the conversation to what the person brings. Sessions emphasize practical steps and clearer ways to cope with difficult feelings and situations.
Hailey draws on methods from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try manageable changes. She also uses Attachment-Based ideas and elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy to address relationship patterns and intense emotions.
In appointments she aims to help people sort through painful memories, relationship hurt, and the heavy weight of guilt or shame that can follow trauma and family wounds. Work may include identifying values, practicing new communication skills, or learning grounding and distress tolerance strategies.
She works with adults and asks people to guide what they want from counseling. The practical parts of therapy often include short skills practice between sessions and reviewing what worked in the week. To begin, prospective clients follow the site’s matching steps and schedule an initial session.
How her approaches translate to online work
Hailey commonly draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy in her work. ACT helps people clarify what matters to them and practice small actions that align with those values, which can be useful when guilt or shame feels paralyzing. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current reactions, helping people notice patterns in close relationships and try different ways of relating.She treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. The therapist will check in about your goals, what has helped before, and how you prefer to work. Together you decide which methods to emphasize and adjust the plan as you learn what fits.
Confirm the session formats before booking since the biography does not list specific delivery options. Many people find that online sessions make it easier to fit counseling into a workday, allow for shorter check-ins when schedules are tight, or remove the need to travel. The practical focus is on making sessions workable within everyday life while using ACT, attachment ideas, and CBT-informed skills to address guilt, shame, and relationship patterns.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
5+ years
Listed in
Florida
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she address related to guilt and shame?
She works with trauma, family of origin issues, relationship hurt, and self-esteem problems that often include feelings of guilt and shame.
How would she approach feelings of guilt in sessions?
Her style is client-centered and interactive, using methods like ACT and CBT to help notice patterns and try small changes in thinking and behavior.
What is her background and experience?
She has five years of experience as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida since 2020.
Where is she licensed to practice?
She is licensed as an LMHC in Florida and provides services from that location.
Does she offer sessions in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not accepting international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
Please confirm current session options before booking, as the biography does not list specific formats.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger or thinking about harming yourself, use the crisis numbers.