David Hayes, LMFT, LPCC
Approach
David has been working individuals, couples, and families in Los Angeles since 2001. His work is psychoanalytically based, which means he explores your current struggles as well as their patterns of origin. Working collaboratively to address areas of past and present conflict and trauma, allows positivity and hope to reemerge. The art and science of psychoanalytic therapy universally centers on cultivating a deep self empathy and self- reflection learned through the collaborative efforts of the therapy process.
A variety of issues can be treated within a psychodynamic framework. Depression, anxiety, grief, and shame, are often some of the core emotions underlying the issues that bring people to therapy. Our minds and bodies naturally want to move us away from these pains. Yet to achieve a lasting remedy for these problems, a working through and ‘digestion’ of one’s own emotional life allows pain to be resolved. Psychodynamic therapy is one of the only treatments to address present day problems AND the underlying patterns that keep them in place.
Who is the best fit
Depth therapy and psychoanalysis attracts people who are interested and motivated to do deep, experiential and insight oriented work. While we are working towards your personal therapeutic goals, each session is an opportunity to explore what is most relevant to your healing process at that moment.
Coaching clients ... seek to work with me to tackle specific life goals and challenges when longer term psychotherapy is not needed or wanted.
About David
David Hayes is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor. He is a Senior Candidate in Psychoanalysis at the Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Study, where he is Board Member At Large, and is Transformational Faculty at Mobius Executive Leadership.
David has a background in bodywork/massage, having studied in California, Spain, and Germany. In addition to an international bodywork private practice, he also worked at clinic and hospital facilities in California. He is also a Partner and the Chief Strategy Officer at NorthStar Families, a group practice specializing in Families and Children.