Faith Hayes , LMHC

Faith Hayes is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 14 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She works with clients facing relationship and parenting concerns, grief, addictions, and identity-related challenges including LGBT issues. Her straightforward, compassionate style aims to make reaching out feel less daunting.

Faith draws on several therapy methods to meet each person where they are. She uses cognitive-behavioral skills to address unhelpful thinking and behavior. She applies somatic and trauma-focused strategies to help people reconnect with their bodies after distressing events. She also incorporates emotionally-focused and solution-oriented techniques when fitting for a person's goals.

Many clients come for help with anger, low self-esteem, panic, or coping with big life changes. Others seek support around family problems, adoption and foster care concerns, or lingering effects of abuse and domestic violence. She also works with people managing mood disorders, ADHD, and compassion fatigue from caregiving roles.

Faith emphasizes collaboration in sessions. She invites clients to identify priorities and then practices concrete skills together. Sessions typically involve clear goals, homework when useful, and check-ins about progress.

Based in Indiana, she offers work that respects each person's background and pace. Faith encourages people who are unsure about therapy to take a first step and see how a few sessions feel.

Therapeutic approaches you can use online

Faith often uses cognitive-behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. CBT is practical and works well for anxiety, panic, depression, and stress by teaching clear skills to practice between sessions.

She also incorporates somatic therapy to help people notice and work with bodily responses to trauma and stress. Somatic techniques can help when emotions feel stuck in the body and when learning grounding and regulation skills is a priority.

Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan as needed. This helps ensure therapy stays relevant and useful to the client's life.

Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and practice skills in real time. Phone sessions can be a good alternative when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging can support brief check-ins, homework feedback, and ongoing encouragement between scheduled sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, work around travel, and maintain continuity when life gets disruptive.