Haley Darr, LPC, LMHC

Haley Darr is a licensed professional counselor with 22 years of experience helping people navigate relationship and family concerns. She holds the LPC credential and the Licensed Mental Health Counselor credential, and she practices from Indiana. Haley writes simply and directly with parents and adults in mind. Haley focuses on everyday problems like low self-esteem, motivation, and parenting stress. She also helps with relationship pain, intimacy-related worries, and life changes such as separation or divorce. People come to her with struggles around trauma, attachment, abandonment, and feelings of emptiness or isolation. Her approach centers on creating an open space for people to say what they really think and feel. Haley listens without judgment and works with each person to figure out practical next steps. Sessions are conversational and aim to turn ideas into doable changes at home and in relationships. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice unhelpful thinking and shift behavior. Attachment-based and client-centered ideas guide how she talks about closeness and trust. Dialectical behavior therapy and emotionally focused work inform how she helps with intense emotions and repairing bonds. Haley believes starting therapy is an act of courage and that small changes add up. She supports people through the messy parts of life and helps them practice new ways of relating. If someone is ready to try a different approach to old problems, she offers steady, practical help.

How her approaches translate to online work

Haley uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. CBT is often used for depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, and coping with life changes. Attachment-based therapy looks at patterns of closeness and trust and helps people understand how past relationships shape current ones.

She combines those methods with a client-centered stance that keeps the person's priorities first. Finding the right mix of techniques is a collaborative process. Haley will talk through goals, try different ways of working, and adjust the approach based on what the person wants and what feels helpful.

Online sessions can include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and reading body language. Phone sessions can fit a quick check-in or work better when bandwidth is limited. Chat and messaging allow short, flexible touchpoints for check-ins, homework, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules and to keep momentum between sessions.