Marsha Hayes , LPC

Marsha Hayes is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 18 years of clinical experience helping adults navigate stress, anxiety, trauma, mood disorders and relationship challenges. She holds licensure in Louisiana and Arizona and brings a practical, solution-oriented focus to therapy that emphasizes strategies clients can use again when new challenges arise.

Her approach blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral and solution-focused methods, offering personalized tools to improve daily functioning, manage symptoms of depression and bipolar disorder, address addiction and process grief. She is also trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), an evidence-informed method commonly used to help people reduce distress related to post-traumatic stress, anxiety and grief.

Marsha aims to create a respectful, nonjudgmental environment where adults can explore issues ranging from parenting and family problems to intimacy, self-esteem, eating concerns and compassion fatigue. She works collaboratively with each person to identify practical steps forward and build coping skills that fit their life and goals.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Marsha integrates client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and EMDR into her work to meet a range of needs. Client-centered therapy emphasizes empathy and respect and helps people explore their values, build self-esteem and strengthen relationships by placing the individual's experience at the center of the process. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and teaching practical skills to reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression and panic; it is often used for mood disorders and daily coping challenges. EMDR is a structured approach that supports processing of traumatic memories and related symptoms such as post-traumatic stress, intense anxiety or prolonged grief.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Marsha works with clients to assess needs, preferences and goals, and she adjusts techniques over time so the chosen methods match what is most helpful for each person. That collaborative stance helps clients feel involved in planning their care and building strategies that fit their lives.

Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to access licensed professionals without rearranging work, childcare or travel, and they allow therapists and clients to continue working together consistently even when schedules or locations change.